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Region Haute-Normandie [ basse vallée de la Seine ]

Departements in Haute-Normandie: Eure [ 27 ] and Seine-Maritime [ 76 ]

Capital City Haute-Normandie: Rouen [ Rouaan ]


Car Rental - see the special page car rental

Holiday Home / Cottage / Apartment

 -  leading specialist of quality villa and cottage holidays in France
  Interhome -  holiday rentals
All properties are checked on a regular basis. All homes can be booked on-line. Properties are shown by destination.
 -  Normandy
Cottages4you is the leading UK provider of self-catered holidays.
  Euro Relais / Grand Relais   - holiday cottages

See page Holiday Homes for more holiday rentals.

Hostel

  Féderation d'Unie des Auberges de Jeunesse
  IYHF - International Youth Hostel Federation
  Hostels.com -  Youth hostels in France

Hotel Room in Normandy

  Bookings UK  - Hotels in France -  an easy way to select and book hotel rooms
Centrally located hotels ranging from small family run budget accommodation to world-class five star hotels. Bookings UK is a dedicated hotel and accommodation reservation website.
  Exclusive Hotels - 
 
Centrally located hotels ranging from small family run budget accommodation to world-class five star hotels.

[  more hotels -  special page ]

Travel Agent / Tour Operator

  Into France  - Holiday in France
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Travel Guide

  Amazon UK

Transport / How do I get to Normandy

  Rouan Airport

 -  Air France, the third biggest worldwide airline
With more than 35 daily scheduled flights out of the UK, serving 9 Airports (Manchester, Heathrow, Gatwick, Newcastle, Glasgow, Birmingham, Southampton, London City Airport and Bristol).

  Airline Tickets /  Bargain Flights

 

 
Direct service Calais, Paris, Lille, Avignon

  SNCF -  French Railways -  train travel planner

 -  Dover - Calais / Portsmouth to Cherbourg / Portsmouth to Le Havre
P&O Ferries is one of the most well known and trusted brands. Wherever you are travelling to, on holiday or on business, P&O Ferries offers a wide range of routes.
  Brittany Ferries
Ferry routes have been carefully chosen to take you much closer to holiday France. There's a wide choice of sailings from Plymouth, Poole and Portsmouth, travelling to Caen, Cherbourg, St Malo, Roscoff or Santander - all have easy access to the major road networks in France & Spain.

 -  Express Coach to Rennes

  Portail Bison Futé
Pour connaître toute l'information routière (bouchons, accidents, travaux, météo routière et prévisions à 24 heures) en permanence : cliquer sur Fance entiere. Pour une information régionale plus détaillée, cliquer sur l'une des zones.
  Mappy -  guide routier - French route planner
  Fédération Françiase de la Randonneé Pédestre -  maps


Links

  Travel Insurance -  travel and holiday insurance for UK and Irish residents

 -  Learn French
You will be surprised at how quickly you can learn French with Linguaphone. Spend just a small amount of time each day listening to the allTalk course and you will learn French to a conversational level in approximately 4 months.

  Normandy Tourist Board -  official site
Hotels & Lodging,  Interactive map,  Sport and Leisure,  Gastronomy, Calendar of events,  Places to see:  Museums, Churches & Abbeys, Chateaux,  D-Day Sites,  Technical visits, Tours, Parks and gardens, Sites and Monuments and much more ....

  Rouaan -  Capital City Haute-Normandy -  Marie Rouen
  Rouen Tourisme
Normandy's capital stretches proudly along the banks of the Seine, Flaubert immortalised the town in Madame Bovary ; Victor Hugo called it town of a hundred bells pealing out in the air. Rouen epitomises all of the region's warm temperament

  Eure [ 27 ]  - Conseil Général de Eure
  L'Eure -  Comité Départemental du Tourisme de l'Eure
  Seine-Maritime [ 76 ]  - Conseil Général de Seine-Maritime
  Seine Maritime -  Seine-Maritime Tourism
Auffay,  Bolbec, Caudebec-en-Caux,  Clères, Dieppe,  Duclair,  Forges-les-Eaux,  Gournay-en-Bray,  Lillebonne,  Rouen,  Elbeuf, Le Havre, la Région de Caudebec-en-Caux, Le Tréport,  Les 3 Vallées,  Pays de Bray,  Oissel

  Caen -  Tourist Office
Caen is the launch platform of your journey in Normandy...But, before to go further let you surprise by the magnificient architecture of Caen, from its Castle built by William the conqueror to its both abbayes, via its Marina, the 5 museums, ... Caen, a city to discover !
Cherbourg-Octeville
  Dieppe [ Seine-Maritime ]
  Le Havre [ Seine-Maritime ] - havenstad
Economische en industrieel hart van Normandië. Na Marseille de grootste haven van Frankwijk. Uitstekend uitgangspunt voor het verkennen van de vele pittoreske dorpjes met vakwerkhuizen.
  Le Havre -  TO  - Places to visit / seaside resort / accommodation and more
Le Havre, a great Normandy city, stands facing the sea with impressive skies, the charm of a vast beach just 500 meters from the city center and a forest making this destination particularly attractive as a holiday and sailing resort. Le Havre is France's leading port and hosts sixty or so liners each year, re-establishing its maritime traditions.

Alençon
Hérouville-Saint-Clair
Lisieux
Saint-Lô
Équeurdreville-Hainneville
Tourlaville
Flers
Argentan
Bayeux
Vire
Granville
Mondeville
Coutances
Ifs
L' Aigle
Ouistreham
Avranches
Falaise
  Honfleur -  Tourist Office
The maritime city of Honfleur got her fame from her seamen. They were full of that spirit of adventure that made them set forth to explore the seven seas. And these great navigators will indeed defy the elements to sail as far as Brazil, Newfoundland or Canada. In 1608 in Honfleur, Samuel de Champlain will set up a whole campaign that will lead to the foundation of Quebec. Every year, many festivals and events keep the maritime tradition of Honfleur alive
Nobody like Eugène Boudin will grasp with more acuteness the ever-changing light of the estuary skies. Impressionnism is born. Honfleur becomes the place to be for many artists. Courbet, Monet, Turner will make Honfleur the inspired place she still is. Be it classical or contemporary, painting is a credit to Honfleur and her many art galeries.
Valognes
La Ferté-Macé
Carentan
Colombelles

  Abbey of Bec
  Château Gaillard near Andelys

Cuisine  - French Cooking

Normandy is famous for its rich, rolling countryside providing plentiful pasture for dairy cattle and orchards for apples. The dairy produce of the region is renowned: its cheeses are world famous and include Camembert, Livarot and Pont l'Evêque. Normandy butter is highly prized, as is Normandy cream, both of which are lavishly used in local gastronomic specialities.

Regional specialities include tripes à la mode de Caen, andouilles, teurgoule (spiced rice pudding) and seafood . Normandy is the most significant oyster-cultivating region in France.

  Calvados - appel brandy
  Cider
  Kir normand  - a measure of cassis topped up with cider.

  French Food and Cook -  authentic French cuisine
Menus and recipes, Tips and Tools,  Table setting, Practice your French [ recipes in French ]
  Meilleur du Chef [ french & english ]
Hors-d'Œuvres, Starters,  Fish, Meat,  Vegetables, Desserts,  Other dishes, Bases, Sauces,  Extras, Diet Dishes
  Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, Louisette  Bertholle and Simone Beck
684 pages; Black and White Sketches, no Photography 
Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2001

History  - French History

Normandy was the home of the Norman people in the early Middle Ages, the last people to successfully invade England. The Normans were a mixture of the indigenous Gauls and of the Viking invaders under the leadership of Rollo (Gange Rolf), who besieged Paris and was given the area of Normandy (Treaty of St. -Claire-sur-Epte, 911) in return for defending it against future pirate attacks.
Romanesque nave of the abbey church of Saint-Georges-de-Boscherville, Normandy, FranceRollo's descendant William, Duke of Normandy, invaded England in 1066 and became king William I of England. Normandy remained associated with England until 1087, in 1106-1144 and in 1154-1204.

Music & Culture

  Discover France  - French Music
The earliest French influence on Western music is found in the plainsong of the Christian Church. It is believed that Gregorian chant as it is known today is an 8th- or 9th-century Gallican interpretation of Roman chant, but it is difficult to distinguish the Gallican ornamentation from its Roman basis. It has been suggested that the basic idea of the trope (an interpolation in a preexistent chant) is Gallican and that the surviving body of medieval tropes and sequences had a French influence ........ 
  Chanter -  French Music Database
Toute la chanson francophone - Aznavour à Zebda, des centaines d'artistes et de concerts, achat de CD, sources de MP3.
Artists, Concerts,  Charts, Shopping,  MP3/MIDI Files, Radio, Lyrics & Music,  Forum, and more

Web Portal / French Search Engine / Directory

  Agglo Rounnaise
  Paris Normandie - Porteil - toute l'actualité de la Haute-Normandie

  Discover France -  webring France
Explore French arts & culture, cuisine, history, language, literature, monuments, museums, shopping, sightseeing, wines, etc. Dozens of topics, chapters on Paris, 21 provinces, overseas territories, former French colonies
  Google.fr -  French Search Engine
  Pages Jaunes -  French Yellow Pages
  Viafrance -  all events in France
Furthermore regional information and intersting links within the French regions.
  Voila -  this search engine is very popular among French native speakers [ 2004 ].

  Viafrance -  all events in France
Furthermore regional information and intersting links within the French regions.