Normandy
Normandy is a region of northern France, bordering the English Channel. Once the centre of a powerful medieval empire that controlled a significant area of continental Europe, and most of England and Wales, Normandy has an incredibly rich heritage to draw from.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Orne and Rouen.
Orne
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Orne is a department in Normandy. It is the least populated department of Normandy, characterized by forests and extensive pastureland. Apart from the main town of Alençon, there are no major cities, but there are a number of castles, fortresses and manor houses.
Rouen
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Rouen is the capital of the French region of Normandy on the River Seine, 135 km northwest from the centre of Paris. The city has a population of 116,000, and its metropolitan area includes some 700,000 inhabitants.
Seine-Maritime
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Seine-Maritime is a department in Normandy, France. The departmentincludes the shore of the English Channel from the Seine estuary to the mouth of the Bresle.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Calvados and Manche.
Calvados
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Calvados is a department of Normandy famous for its apple liqueur. Calvados is one of the most visited areas in France because of its seaside resorts which are among the most prestigious in France with their luxurious hotels, casinos, green countryside, manors, castles, the quiet, the chalk cliffs, the typical Norman houses, the history of William the Conqueror, Caen, Bayeux, and Lisieux.
Manche
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Manche is a coastal French department in Normandy on the English Channel, which is known as La Manche, literally "the sleeve", in French. Manche is bordered by Ille-et-Vilaine and Mayenne to the south, Orne and Calvados to the east, the English Channel to the…
Le Havre
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Le Havre is a port city at the mouth of the Seine, on the English Channel in the region of Upper Normandy in France. Listed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site for its reconstructed city centre, Le Havre is challenging its reputation as an industrial city.
Eure
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Eure is a department of Normandy.The main tourist attraction is Giverny where Claude Monet's house and garden can be seen.
Évreux
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Évreux is the capital of the Eure department in the Upper Normandy region of France.
Avranches
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Avranches is a town on the coast in the south-west corner of Manche, at the base of the Cotentin Peninsula. Mont Saint-Michel is quite nearby. The town was liberated by American troops during the Normandy campaign after the D-Day invasion of World War II; there is a monument.
Les Andelys
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Les Andelys is a town on the river Seine in the Upper Normandy region of northern France, some 30 km northeast of Évreux. As the name might suggest, Les Andelys is divided into its two original components: Grand-Andely and Petit-Andely.
Étretat
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Étretat is a small coastal village in Seine-Maritime, Upper Normandy, France. The town is nestled between the famous towering cliffs, which inspired numerous paintings by the impressionist Claude Monet.
Giverny
Giverny is a small French village 80 km to the north-west of the capital city Paris, within the valley of the river Seine and the northern region of Upper Normandy.
Sallenelles
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Sallenelles is a village in Calvados départment of Lower Normandy, France.
Normandy
- Type: region of France with 3,500,000 residents
- Description: region of France
- Also known as: “Normandie” and “Normandy, France”
- Neighbors: Brittany, Centre-Val de Loire, Hauts-de-France, Île-de-France, and Pays de la Loire
- Location: France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Normandy” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Normandië”
- Albanian: “Normandia”
- Arabic: “نرمندية”
- Arabic: “نورماندي”
- Aragonese: “Normandía”
- Armenian: “Նորմանդիա”
- Asturian: “Normandía”
- Azerbaijani: “Normandiya”
- Basque: “Normandia”
- Belarusian: “Нармандыя (рэгіён)”
- Belarusian: “Нармандыя”
- Belarusian: “рэгіён Нармандыя”
- Bengali: “নরমঁদি”
- Breton: “Normandi”
- Bulgarian: “Нормандия”
- Burmese: “နောရ်မံဒီတိုင်း”
- Catalan: “Normandia”
- Chinese: “诺曼底大区”
- Chinese: “諾曼第大區”
- Czech: “Normandie”
- Danish: “Normandie”
- Dimli (individual language): “Normandiya”
- Dutch: “Normandie (regio)”
- Dutch: “Normandie”
- Dutch: “Normandië”
- Esperanto: “Normandio”
- Estonian: “Normandia piirkond”
- Estonian: “Normandia”
- Finnish: “Normandia”
- French: “Normandie”
- French: “région normande”
- French: “région Normandie”
- Galician: “Normandía”
- Georgian: “ნორმანდია”
- German: “Normandie”
- Greek: “Νορμανδία”
- Hausa: “Normandie”
- Hebrew: “נורמנדי”
- Hindi: “नोर्मंडी”
- Hungarian: “Normandia”
- Ido: “Normandia”
- Indonesian: “Normandia”
- Interlingue: “Normandie”
- Irish: “An Normainn”
- Italian: “Normandia”
- Japanese: “ノルマンディー地域圏”
- Japanese: “ノルマンディー地方”
- Jèrriais: “Normaundie”
- Kazakh: “Нормандия (аймақ)”
- Kazakh: “Нормандия”
- Korean: “노르망디”
- Kurdish: “Normandî”
- Ladin: “Normandia”
- Latin: “Normannia”
- Latvian: “Normandija”
- Limburgan: “Normandie”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Normandia”
- Luxembourgish: “Normandie”
- Macedonian: “Нормандија”
- Maltese: “Normandie”
- Maltese: “Normandija”
- Manx: “Normandie”
- Manx: “Normandy”
- Manx: “yn Norman”
- Manx: “Yn Norman”
- Marathi: “नॉर्मंदी (प्रशासकीय प्रदेश)”
- Marathi: “नॉर्मंदी”
- Mongolian: “Норманди”
- Narom: “Normaundie”
- Narom: “Nouormandie”
- Narom: “Nouormaundie”
- Northern Frisian: “Normandie”
- Northern Frisian: “Normandii”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Normandie”
- Norwegian: “Normandie”
- Novial: “Normandie (Administrativa Region)”
- Novial: “Normandie”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Normandia”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Normandig”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Norþmannaland”
- Ossetian: “Норманди”
- Persian: “نرماندی”
- Piemontese: “Normandìa”
- Polish: “Normandia”
- Portuguese: “Normandia, França”
- Portuguese: “Normandia”
- Portuguese: “Normandie”
- Romanian: “Normandia (regiune administrativă)”
- Romanian: “Normandia”
- Russian: “Нормандия”
- Sardinian: “Normandia (regione amministrativa)”
- Sardinian: “Normandia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Normandija (regija)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Normandija”
- Sindhi: “نارمنڊي (انتظامي علائقو)”
- Sindhi: “نارمنڊي”
- Slovak: “Normandia”
- Slovenian: “Normandija”
- Spanish: “Normandia”
- Spanish: “Normandía”
- Spanish: “Región de Normandía”
- Swedish: “Normandie”
- Swiss German: “Normandie”
- Tamil: “நார்மாண்டி”
- Tatar: “Нормандия”
- Thai: “แคว้นนอร์ม็องดี”
- Tosk Albanian: “Normandie”
- Turkish: “Normandiya”
- Ukrainian: “Нормандія”
- Urdu: “نارمنڈی”
- Urdu: “نورمینڈی”
- Venetian: “Normandia”
- Vietnamese: “Normandie”
- Vlaams: “Normandië”
- Welsh: “Normandi”
- Welsh: “Normandie”
- Western Frisian: “Normandje”
- Wu Chinese: “诺曼底大区”
- Yue Chinese: “諾曼第”
- Zeeuws: “Normandie”
- “ma Nomansi”
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