Local products in the spotlight The Fête du ventre et de la gastronomie normande takes place in Rouen on the third weekend of October. These two festive days are a must-attend event for food lovers and gourmets. This grand festival, dedicated to gastronomy and local produce, has been taking plac ...
anks of the Seine. In particular, he produced La Berge, a painting now hanging in the Musée d'Orsay. Take advantage of your visit to this charming Norman village of Les Andelys to see the ruins of Château-Gaillard, a stronghold built by Richard the Lionheart. From the top of this rocky promo ...
Art in the landscape In Varengeville-sur-Mer, there is the English Channel, the white cliffs of the Côte d'Albâtre and a picturesque Norman village nestled in the greenery. But there are also land art installations to discover as part of the festival Grandeur Nature. As the very essence of ...
Presentation Mont-Saint-Michel is a commune located in the Manche department, in the Basse-Normandie region. The commune takes its name from the rocky islet dedicated to Saint Michael on which stands the abbey of Mont Saint-Michel, a world-famous place of pilgrimage. Mont Saint-Michel is the most ...
tte had built, following the example of the Prince of Condé in Chantilly, to enjoy the pleasures of the countryside with her children. This hamlet, in Norman style, was built by Richard Mique from 1783 to 1785. It consists of 12 thatched cottages surrounded by vegetable and flower gardens, origina ...
s oyster farming. This renowned oyster farming commune has some 250 hectares of parks. Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue is even considered as the cradle of the Norman oyster. During your stay, don't miss the chance to taste the Saint-Vaast oyster, which is a favourite among oyster lovers for its nutty ta ...
st way to limit the environmental impact of our online purchases and reduce e-commerce waste is to avoid single-use packages. That's why the young Normandy start-up Hipli has come up with a reusable package to deliver and return items between merchants and customers on the French market. It is ...
its workshops (more information on the website: https://theanimatefactory.com/fr/). 3- These creations export well With Christmas approaching, this Norman company has many orders to fulfil. In this growing market, The Animate Factory exports 50% of its Christmas automata. Each piece costs ...
or offering one of the county's most spectacular tourist attractions St. Michael's Mount! In name and appearance, this island is very similar to our Norman Mont Saint-Michel. It is a granite island located about a mile off the town of Penzance. View this post on Instagram A ...
ce. Copyright : David Hockney, FreshFlowers 5- He will soon exhibit at the Bayeux Tapestry Museum Since 2019, David Hockney has settled in Normandy and has become one of the best ambassadors of this French region. It is here, in his half-timbered house in the heart of the Auge Valley, tha ...
e adaptations of three of his novels for the small screen, Maman a tort on France 2, Un avion sans elle on M6 and Le temps est assassin on TF1, but the Norman author with 721,000 books sold in 2021 alone had not participated in these adaptations... This time, Michel Bussi has embarked on writing ...
