Tour of the Normandy №1
Cities visited Rouen,
Honfleur, Deauville, Trouville, tasting Norman cheeses sidra.vina, Calvados.
The tour starts with a trip to
the first city - Rouen, while en route (about 1.5 hours) you will see the
documentary film about the history of Normandy. Driving around the city, the
driver (accompanying) shows you the city and all the sights, telling stories
from the city. Furthermore, at your request, you will find tasting cheese,
wine, and calvados. At the same time, you can accompany a professional guide in
Rouen, for payment of services which, care must be taken in advance!
Rouen - the city of a hundredtowers, a hundred bells, and a hundred museums. Here, everything is unusual
here erases temporary differences, the city seems to have been preserved from
the time of Napoleon. These quaint streets of half-timbered houses narrow,
sharp roof, shutters, flower pots of geraniums, all steeped in antiquity,
because most of these houses 500-600 years ... The city was conquered by the
Normans in 841 and in 896 became the capital of Normandy. After the Normans
ruled the English kings. Only Philip II Augustus during the 'just war' against
vassal, a role which will of fate turned out to be the king of England, John
Lackland, in 1204, winning over Normandy. Rouen resisted for 40 days and then
came into the possession of the King of France. Since Rouen was surrounded by
oak forests, then the house is built of wooden skeletons, which are then laid
the stone. The resulting solution and daubed walls painted. It is therefore
surprising of all - the streets and tour in Rouen. Decorated in such a way
streets resemble drawings, which are made of children's watercolors.
Easy walk to town and after it
you will find the way to the Atlantic, in the picturesque town of Honfleur,
where you will stop for lunch, just off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Here
paradise for gourmets of seafood will be served the freshest oysters, mussels,
crabs, lobsters, fish, and so on. D. After the second Normandy Brittany seafood
supplier in France.
Honfleur - a small picturesque
port town, which is founded by the Vikings. The city is decorated with antique
wooden architecture that inspires so many great Impressionist painters, that's
why there are so many art galleries. Honfleur is located on the southern coast
of the Seine, near Le Havre. This flowering coast once and it was a great port.
The house half-timbered buildings, old harbor with narrow and tall houses,
huddled close to each other and something like ships - all reminiscent of
centuries of maritime history of the city. Ornate wooden architecture makes the
city somehow old-fashioned, but at the same time and very unusual, unlike its
neighbors Trouville and Deauville. His calm, carefree look evokes a wonderful,
inexplicable feeling of joy and thanks to tours of Honfleur, you are tuned to a
fine. Perhaps it is due to its unusual atmosphere here preferred to live
artists, creating paintings that have become classics of Impressionism. Here
were born Erik Satie and Eugène Boudin, here worked great Claude Monet.
And here we are well-fed,
happy and rested - go to the next on our way two beautiful town of Deauville
and Trouville.
Deauville - a seaside resort
in Normandy at La Mancha. This resort welcomes guests all year round! Tour Deauville
- a real trip for gourmets. As the French say, to truly appreciate the gourmet
meal, you have to be fed. To truly appreciate the exquisite taste of Deauville,
you have to be not only well fed, but also rich. Atlantic coast of Normandy
resort, yes it is an ideal place for the French kinobogemy and wealthy people
from around the world. At various times rested Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle
Adjani, Vanessa Paradis, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Gerard Depardieu.
Trouville - Deauville twin.
The city is an example of unique architecture with magnificent villa early XX
century, so typical of the entire Normandy coast. Trouville fishing village has
a thousand-year history, he remembers the Vikings. In the second half of the
XIX century on the lush coastline (Cote Fleurie) on the initiative of the Duke
of Morny, half-brother of Napoleon III, Trouville began to expand, here spent
the railroad tracks. Trouville popularity largely contributed paintings of the
artist Charles Mozena which exposed landscapes little fishing village in 1825
at the Paris Salon. With the emergence of fashion for sea baths city turned
into a resort - the first on this coast! Casino, built in the style of Louis
XVI, was at that time the most popular on the Normandy coast.
Trouville draws its charm not
only Parisian aristocrats and artists. There have written Isabey, Monet, Boudin
and Pissarro. It was at Trouville Gustave Flaubert met his first love, and
Alexandre Dumas, George Sand and Charles Nodier liked to rest here. Every day
on the waterfront a lively fish market, along the wide beaches are open late
into the night many bars and restaurants where you can enjoy the freshest
seafood. In contrast to the pompous chic Deauville, a combination of the
atmosphere of the resort town of idleness and daily life of a small fishing
port of Trouville gives a special charm.
