Guide to Normandy's regions

Normandy's regions

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Normandy is divided into five regions.

Calvados

• Postcard-pretty former smugglers’ harbour Honfleur with rich maritime tradition

• Caen the lively university city is a perfect base from which to explore the D-Day Landing Beaches

• Deauville, the Parisians’ favourite but Trouville is preferred by many. Bayeux’s museum housing the 70 metre tapestry is open all year

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Eure

• Visit Monet’s famous garden at Givern

• Visit Château Gaillard near Les Andely, Richard the Lionheart's castle

• Evreux’s  half-timbered houses in Pont Audemer and the cathedral

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Manche

• Cherbourg at the top reaching into the English channel

• Mont St Michel, France's tourist attraction No.2 after the Eiffel tower.

• Coutance’s splendid cathedral

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Orne

• Alençon, former lace capital on the edge of the pretty Ecouves Forest

• Fairy taile Château d’O near Argentan

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Seine-Maritime

• Gros Horloge, a Sunday fleamarket in Rouen with a medieval centre 

• Dieppe with its new harbour-side cafés and restaurant

• The famous Chalk cliffs at Etretat, a Bénédictine distillery in Fécamp and the Roman amphitheatre in Lillebonne

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