Reports Normandy

Cars have been banned from the foot of Mont-Saint-Michel in northwest France. People coming to the country's most visited tourist site now have to park their vehicles three kilometres from the historic mount, walk one kilometre, t..
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Normandy’s Pays d’Auge has beautiful landscapes and many fine local products to recommend it. Amongst the region’s producers of unfiltered cider, raw-milk cheese, Calvados, butter and cream, here is a select list of remarkable art..
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Jacques Garcia is one of the decorators most in demand worldwide. He has taken care, inter alia, of the decoration of Hotel Costes, Le Fouquet's and the Romantic Life Museum in Paris, the Mamounia in Marrakesh, and Jean-Georges Vo..
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A French Baroque masterpiece, the Chateau du Champ de Bataille needed a worthy setting. Geometrical gardens were required to prolong the architectural lines, in great French tradition, with immense perspectives and large pools. Ja..
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Legend has it that Aubert, Bishop of Avranches, came to Mont Tombe in 708 to dedicate a sanctuary here to the archangel Saint Michel. 1,300 years later, there’s still time to visit this masterpiece of religious architecture, which..
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In Blangy-le-Château (around 6 miles from Pont-l’Evêque and 12 miles from Deauville), François David has, for 50 years, been making marvellous unfiltered, natural sweet ciders that exalt the aromas of an old variety of apple, nowa..
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