MUSIC IN NORMANDIE
Normandy is as its apple trees : roots indeed in earth, the forehead turned to the sea.....
Travel 5 till 8 days
Discover Heritage and landscape
AGON - COUTAINVILLE
COUTANCES
GRANVILLE
BAYEUX
Magnificent abbayes ......
ABBAYE DE LESSAY
Considered as being one of the most perfect expressions of the Romanesque art in Normandy, the abbey of Lessay would be the first one to have been built with vaults on intersections of the ribs in the occidental world, what represents a remarkable technical headway !
ABBAYE DE LA LUCERNE
Built in the second half of the XIIth century, the abbey of Lucerne was restored in the XVth and in the XIIth century. In a shaded and picturesque site rise the Romanic constructions, of Cistercian spirit by their sobriety and their rigor. The set is dominated by an English-Norman tower which already announces the Gothic architecture.
Of very numerous remarkable sites ...
CHATEAU DE PIROU
LES ILES CHAUSEY
Chausey is the biggest archipelago of Europe, washed twice a day by the strongest tides of the Old Continent. A big long Island of hardly one thousand. A magnificent nature and a classified site, thus protected. A hard exercise of navigation. Norman islands - not English-Norman, anchored to nine miles of Granville.
Chausey, it is everything except a commonplace.
LE MONT SAINT MICHEL
" Marvel of the West ", the Mont Saint-Michel raises itself in the heart of an big bay invaded by the biggest tides of Europe.
Thousand years of historyfaith and talents of the people shaped the Mont Saint-Michel which is a part integral of the history of France.
LES PLAGES DU DEBARQUEMENT ET LE CIMETIERE AMERICAIN
All the Norman coast is the witness of this asaut gigantic which was going to free many years' France of German occupation. Then today, to walk on these beaches, it is made everywhere, a tribute was returned to all these people. To those who left and to those who stayed and who are our report.
Inaugurated in 1956, Normandy American Cemetery was built in the heart of a vast space of 70 hectares granted by France in United States. Overhanging the beach of Omaha, it gathers 9386 perfectly aligned gravestones and a Garden of the Missing persons where remain engravedthe names of 1557 soldiers, the American cemetery invites in the meditation and in the memory.
Discover Heritage and landscape
AGON - COUTAINVILLE
Of the bay of Siena, vast area of meadow and moors where the fresh water is next to the salt water, we cross by the picturesque village of Agon, historic heart with its church of the XIth century, to finish in the Point of Agon, protected natural site which opens widely on the sea and where comes to run aground boats
COUTANCES
In the heart of the niormand bocage and in only 10 minutes of the sea, perched between heaven and earth, crowned with its prestigious cathedral, thrones Coutances : l city of art, history, culture...
GRANVILLE
Discover the one who was successively quoted from privateers then seaside staion!
Plunge into its history by crossing narrow alleys of the High city, admire the rich collections of museums, stop at the edge of the cliff to dream about evasion by contemplating the quite close archipelago of the Chausey Islands...
Plunge into its history by crossing narrow alleys of the High city, admire the rich collections of museums, stop at the edge of the cliff to dream about evasion by contemplating the quite close archipelago of the Chausey Islands...
BAYEUX
Bayeux is a city of memory : memory of the conquest of England by Guillaume Le Conquérant in the XIth century and the famous Bayeux Tapestry which redraws this battle by the menu, the memory of time with its cathedral and its medieval center, memory of the everyday life with its lace appreciated, memory of the people with its museum memorial because it was in 1944 the first city of freed France.
Magnificent abbayes ......
ABBAYE DE LESSAY
Considered as being one of the most perfect expressions of the Romanesque art in Normandy, the abbey of Lessay would be the first one to have been built with vaults on intersections of the ribs in the occidental world, what represents a remarkable technical headway !
ABBAYE DE LA LUCERNE
Built in the second half of the XIIth century, the abbey of Lucerne was restored in the XVth and in the XIIth century. In a shaded and picturesque site rise the Romanic constructions, of Cistercian spirit by their sobriety and their rigor. The set is dominated by an English-Norman tower which already announces the Gothic architecture.
Of very numerous remarkable sites ...
CHATEAU DE PIROU
Implanted on a site Viking the fort of Pirou is a fortress of the XIIth century. The hurdy-gurdy legend of the gooses of Pirou, one of the most popular of the cotentin, claims to connect the origin of this fort with the Scandinavian invasions.
LES ILES CHAUSEY
Chausey is the biggest archipelago of Europe, washed twice a day by the strongest tides of the Old Continent. A big long Island of hardly one thousand. A magnificent nature and a classified site, thus protected. A hard exercise of navigation. Norman islands - not English-Norman, anchored to nine miles of Granville.
Chausey, it is everything except a commonplace.
LE MONT SAINT MICHEL
" Marvel of the West ", the Mont Saint-Michel raises itself in the heart of an big bay invaded by the biggest tides of Europe.
Thousand years of historyfaith and talents of the people shaped the Mont Saint-Michel which is a part integral of the history of France.
LES PLAGES DU DEBARQUEMENT ET LE CIMETIERE AMERICAIN
All the Norman coast is the witness of this asaut gigantic which was going to free many years' France of German occupation. Then today, to walk on these beaches, it is made everywhere, a tribute was returned to all these people. To those who left and to those who stayed and who are our report.
Inaugurated in 1956, Normandy American Cemetery was built in the heart of a vast space of 70 hectares granted by France in United States. Overhanging the beach of Omaha, it gathers 9386 perfectly aligned gravestones and a Garden of the Missing persons where remain engravedthe names of 1557 soldiers, the American cemetery invites in the meditation and in the memory.
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