Normandy

Mont Saint Michel bordercropped - View of Mont Saint-Michel

Normandy (Normandie, Norman: Normaundie) 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 timeless legacy to draw from. Many visitors come to be enchanted by historical attractions such as the triple peaks of Rouen cathedral and the Bayeux

Tapestry's engrossing tale of vengeance and conquest, and the fantastical abbey atop Mont Saint-Michel. Normandy is also famed for the D-Day Allied invasion on 6 June, 1944, and the brutal inland fighting that ensued, but which eventually resulted in the liberation of France from Nazi rule.

However, Normandy is more than just a history museum; this is a region of natural beauty too, from the chalky cliffs of the Dieppe|Alabaster Étretat|Coast, to the rocky hills of the Suisse Normande, and the Cotentin marshlands. And where better to savour the twin pillars of Norman cuisine, milk and apples?

Regions of Normandy

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Lower Normandy The more rural west of Normandy is on and around the Cotentin peninsula, which thrusts into the English Channel. Lower Normandy was the location of the D-Day landings and much of the subsequent fighting. Other standouts include the towns of Bayeux and Honfleur.

Upper Normandy The more urban east of Normandy is where the river Seine flows to meet the sea. Upper Normandy hosts the cities of Rouen and Le Havre, picturesque landscapes on the Alabaster Coast, and the home of impressionist painter Claude Monet. Cities and towns Rouen GPS 49.4412, 1.0963 — Normandy's smart capital city has abundant medieval legacy, with several notable Gothic monuments and many half-timber houses. Joan of Arc met her gruesome fate here in 1431, when she was burnt at the stake as a heretic. Bayeux GPS 49.2794,-0.7028 — Pretty cathedral town that serves as a good base for visiting the eastern D-Day beaches (D-Day beaches#Gold

Ferry routes from Ireland| All services from Ireland to France are overnight and provide cabins.

Brittany Ferries from Cork to:

• Roscoff, in Brittany: 14 hr

Irish Ferries from Dublin to:

• Cherbourg: 20 hours, departs Saturday afternoon, travel overnight and arrive Sunday morning

from Rosslare to:

• Cherbourg: 7 hours 30 min, several times a week
• Roscoff: 17 hours 30 min, summer only

By car

From Paris, take the A13 autoroute (motorway) in the direction of Rouen, which takes about 2 hr. Caen is around 2 hours 45 min from the capital, while Cherbourg is about 4 hr. The A28 links traffic from the south, i.e. Le Mans and Tours, for the A10 from Bordeaux and ultimately Spain. Those coming in from Rennes and the rest of Brittany should find the A84 helpful. If driving from the north (Hauts-de-France and the Benelux) and the A28 branches off the A16 at Abbeville and heads down into Upper Normandy. Driving times from the Calais ferry port and Channel Tunnel terminal are around 2 hours to Rouen using the A16 and A28 motorways.

Muslim Friendly Rail Holidays in Normandy

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Normandy is not connected to any high speed rail (TGV) lines, so services to and around the region are rather slow by French standards.

From within France

SNCF Intercités trains depart from Paris Saint-Lazare to Rouen Rive Droite (1 hours 30 min), Le Havre (2 hrs), Caen (2 hr), Cherbourg (3 hr), among other places. You can catch trains from these cities to other destinations in the region.

For the south of the region, trains leave Paris from Gare Montparnasse to towns such as Argentan and Granville (Normandy) | Granville. For Mont Saint Michel and the best option is to take a high-speed train from Gare Montparnasse to Rennes and then a bus.

Rail services from other parts of France are not so great, but still doable. For instance, direct services from Tours to Caen take around 3 hours, while those travelling from Nantes to Caen should expect a 4-hour journey, changing trains in Le Mans. When coming from Lille, which is a hub for high speed trains from the Benelux and Germany, a direct 2 hours 45 min journey to Rouen is feasible.

From the United Kingdom

Eurostar links London to Paris Gare du North in 2 hours 15 mins. From Gare du Nord, it is just one stop to Haussmann Saint-Lazare on Line E of the /en RER] (express metro), from where you should follow the instructions above.

Alternatively, you may wish to take it slow, by combining the train with a ferry crossing. On the British side, Portsmouth Harbour and Newhaven Harbour both receive regular trains from London and many other places. Three ferry ports in Normandy (Cherbourg, Le Havre and Dieppe) have train stations served by regional trains.

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If you have a seagoing vessel at your disposal, why not make the journey across the English Channel yourself? It's not that far, only 120 kilometers (65 nautical miles) at its furthest between West Sussex and the D-Day beaches, and Normandy has many attractive harbour towns to moor in when you arrive, with the guarantee of some delicious moules normandes in a local restaurant.

This being said and the majority of visitors who make a sea crossing will do so on board a ferry, and the blue infoboxes on the right (or above if you're on mobile) compile the various routes to Normandy and nearby ports from the British Isles. The length of each crossing varies widely, as do the facilities on board each vessel, ranging from a passenger seating area with just a drinks machine for refreshment, right up to "cruise ship-style" full board with cabins, restaurants and entertainment all provided. If you're bringing your vehicle, remember to drive on the right as soon as you disembark!

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Normandy is not overly blessed with air links, and has only two small international airports:

• Caen Carpiquet Airport IATA Flight Code: CFR - Caen – Carpiquet Airport Aéroport de caen carpiquet summer Flybe services from Southend, and a small selection of year-round domestic services.

• Deauville Normandie Airport IATA Flight Code: DOL - Deauville – Normandie Airport Aérogare de l'aéroport international de Deauville-Normandie A seasonal airport with summer Flybe services from Birmingham and summer Ryanair Flights from London Stansted. Tui Fly Belgium fly from Marrakech and the Canary Islands

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The international airports near Normandy are:

• Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (IATA Flight Code: CDG): France's main hub receives hundreds of flights a day from all over the world. Driving times to Rouen are about 2 hr, and to Caen around 3 hr.
• "Paris" Beauvais Airport (IATA Flight Code: BVA): a hub of Ryanair and other low cost airlines which has direct links from many parts of Europe. Beauvais is probably closer to Rouen than Paris, at about 90 kilometers distant.
• Rennes Saint-Jacques Airport (IATA Flight Code: RNS): Flights from a selection of European cities including Amsterdam Schiphol, Barcelona El Prat, Cork, Dublin, Exeter, London (London City Airport|City and Gatwick), Madrid Barajas, Manchester Airport, Southampton, Southend. Also a fair few domestic Flights from elsewhere in France. Close to Lower Normandy.
• Dinard Airport (IATA Flight Code: DNR), near Saint-Malo: Flights from East Midlands Airport|East Midlands, Guernsey, Leeds -Bradford and London Stansted.

Alternatively, Rouen Airport (IATA Flight Code: URO) has a regular HOP! (Air France)] route from Lyon#By plane|Lyon Saint Exupéry (IATA Flight Code: LYS), which is a large international airport.

How to get around in Normandy

Pont normandie depuis aire repos nord - The startlingly steep Pont de Normandie suspension bridge breaks up the motorway monotony of the A29.

By car

See also: Driving in France

Unfortunately the best and quickest way to get around Normandy, particularly the rural areas, is by private car. The road network is well-developed, though Normandy and north-west France in general tends to have fewer motorways (autoroutes, with A-prefixed route numbers) and more national roads (routes nationales, with N-prefixed route numbers). This has the advantage of far fewer toll roads than in other parts of the nation. The major roads of the region are:

• A13 / N13 (west - east): Cherbourg, D-Day beaches, N174, Bayeux, Caen (A84, N158), Deauville (A132), A29, Seine Valley, A28, Rouen, A154, Giverny, [[Île-de-France, towards Paris
• A28 (north - south): Hauts-de-France, from Abbeville, A29, Rouen, A13, Alençon, Pays de la Loire, towards Le Mans
• A29: Hauts-de-France, from Amiens, A28, A151, A150, Le Havre, Pont de Normandie, Honfleur, Deauville, A13
• A84: Caen (A13, N13, N158), N174 / Saint-Lô, Granville, Avranches, Mont Saint-Michel, Brittany, towards Rennes
• A88 / N158: Caen (A13, N13, A84), Falaise, Argentan, A28
• A150: Rouen, A151, A29
• A151 / N27: A150 from Rouen, A29, Dieppe
• A154 / N154: A13 from Rouen, Évreux, N12 towards Paris
• N31: Rouen (A28), to Beauvais and Reims
• N174 (marked as E3 on some maps): N13 / D-Day beaches, Saint-Lô, A84

Muslim Friendly Rail Holidays in Normandy

See also: Rail travel in France

Normandy lacks high-speed rail, and its train network, while not bad, is best described as patchy. Upper Normandy, especially around Rouen and the Seine Valley, is part of the Paris commuter belt so has decent coverage. The more rural Lower Normandy has fewer lines, and fewer trains serving them. Rail travel is nonetheless an economical way to get around Normandy. Most trains are provided by TER Normandie, from whom you can purchase tickets and view a /normandie/gares/carte-du-reseau-ter-normandie map of the region's network.

What to see in Normandy

Abbaye aux Hommes et église St-Etienne - Abbaye aux Hommes and Saint-Étienne Church, Caen

Castles

Both the 'ruined fortress' and 'fancy château' varieties are present in Normandy. A notable example of the former is Richard the Lionheart's Château Gaillard in Les Andelys, a seemingly-impregnable fortress commanding an impressive vantage point, but which lasted only a few years before being captured by the Spanish. An example of a historic castle that provided comfort as well as defence can be seen in the Dukes' Castle at Alençon. There are also some châteaux in the region with no defensive purpose which were built purely to show off their owners' wealth and prestige. Examples include the slightly worn-around-the-edges renaissance Les Andelys#Q1989567|Château de Gaillon in the town of the same name, and the 17th century Château de Balleroy near Bayeux#Go next|Bayeux, which is now owned by the hot air balloon-obsessed Forbes family, of American business media fame.

Coast

Normandy has several named coasts, each with a different character. Furthest east is the iconic Alabaster Coast (Côte d'Albâtre), known for its white chalk cliffs, mirroring similar formations on the south coast of England. Étretat has the most well-known of the cliffs, while Dieppe is more of a beach town with wartime history to boot. The good-looking resorts of the Flowery Coast (Côte Fleurie), including Deauville and Honfleur, are rather posh; this area is popular with second homeowners from Paris, with good reason. Continuing west are the beaches of the lesser-known Mother of Pearl Coast (Côte de Nacre) around Ouistreham and then the infamous D-Day landing beaches (plages du débarquement), which stretch for many miles right up the Cotentin Peninsula. At the top of Cotentin (near Cherbourg) are the lively harbours of Barfleur and Saint-Vaast, along with wild and rugged landscapes around La Hague. The west coast of the peninsula offers a long stretch of sandy beaches that lead south past Granville all the way to Mont Saint-Michel and the Brittany|Breton border.

Christianity

There are literally hundreds of medieval churches, abbeys and cathedrals scattered around Normandy, primarily in the Gothic and Romanesque styles. Romanesque architecture, characterised by rounded arches and lots of pillars, is often known to the British as "Norman", as it was they who introduced the style to many parts of Europe. Significant examples of this style include the Church of Saint-Étienne and its abbeys in Caen, Upper Normandy|Fécamp's Benedictine abbey, and Bayeux Gothic Church. Gothic architecture developed from Romanesque in neighbouring Hauts-de-France|Picardy, but is more than fairly represented in Normandy too. Gothic churches tend to be more elaborately designed than Romanesque ones, with pointed arches, flying buttresses, complex stained-glass windows and gargoyles. Important examples include Notre Dame de l'Assomption Gothic Church and Saint-Ouen church, both in Rouen. The abbey at Mont Saint-Michel is notable for its Gothic style, but with several older elements retaining the Romanesque.

Top Muslim Travel Tips for Normandy

Etretat - panoramio - David Sánchez Núñez - Flying along the Alabaster Coast

The Avenue Verte cycle path links Paris and London. In Normandy, you can follow the route from Dieppe inland through the nationside of Seine-Maritime to Beauvais over the Picardy|Picard border. This section is 122 kilometers in total, and is fully signposted with distinctive green signs.

Grandes Randonnées (GRs) are long-distance footpaths. They are usually well-maintained, and waymarked by horizontal red and white bands, which are painted on fence posts, trees and at the bases of pylons. You can choose to go the whole way if you have lots of time on your hands! Otherwise, select day trips or an itinerary for a few days walking along the most interesting parts. Normandy has two coastal GRs of note:

• The GR 21 tracks north-east from Le Havre to Le Tréport on the Norman/Picard border. This 186-km route takes in the entire Alabaster Coast, and its glorious chalk cliffs and snug harbour towns. Like other long-distance paths and the GR21 lends itself to much shorter walks, with highlights around Étretat and Dieppe being especially favoured.
• The GR 223 (Sentier des Douaniers/Custom Officers' Way) goes all the way from Honfleur in the east along the coast of Calvados, around Cotentin to Mont Saint Michel, on the Brittany|Breton border in the west. The entire walk takes a month, but most prefer to pick sections according to their interest. History fans often choose the D-Day beaches, while lovers of spectacular nature (cliffs and coves) prefer the walk around Cap de la Hague, west of Cherbourg, and others still opt to approach Mont Saint-Michel around its eponymous bay.

Halal Restaurants in Normandy

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Norman cuisine is pretty close to the standard French cuisine, though is based around the three main products of the region: seafood, apples and dairy. Its regional specialities are guaranteed to satisfy the most demanding gastronome.

Starters and snacks

• Foie Gras — Though much more associated with the south west of France, production of this goose/duck liver pâté has recently been introduced to Normandy. The birds are force fed to make them as fat as feasible.
• Omelettes — A must-try when in Mont Saint-Michel; the local omelettes are creamy and light. The most famous omelette restaurant is easily La Mère Poulard, but long wait times and high prices may drive you elsewhere.
• Sausages — Popular local varieties include Andouille de Vire, a chitterling charcuterie that is often served as an apéritif with a glass of calvados, and boudin de Mortagne, black pudding from the far south of Orne, east of Alençon.

Trou normand

The trou normand (literally: "Norman hole") is a glass of calvados (see #Drink|below), often accompanied by an apple sorbet, and served between courses during a long and heavy meal as a palate-cleanser, a digestion aid and a fortifier, to make sure the diner is ready to continue eating! It is most often served between the fish course the main course, or in less elaborate meals as a bridge between the main dish and the dessert.

Main meals

LaMerePoulardMontSaint-MichelNormandy - La Mère Poulard, Mont Saint-Michel Tripes à la mode de Caen - Tripes à la mode de Caen

Normandy is renowned for its variety of meats:

• Agneau de pré-salé — Lamb raised on the salt marshes near Mont Saint-Michel. The Meat has a very delicate flavour, and can be prepared in any number of ways classic to French butchery and gastronomy.
• Canard au sang or canard à la Rouennaise — Duck or duckling served with a Sauce composed of the same duck's blood and bone marrow, extracted by a special press. Every part of the bird is used, so on the menu you might encounter magret (breast), foie (liver), patte (leg), or a little bit of everything. The thought of this may well make your stomach turn, but if you have good reason to trust your chef, give it a try. This speciality of Rouen is considered a delicacy.
• Poulet vallée d'Auge — Chicken from the Auge Valley, in the area around Lisieux. The bird is carved into large chunks and cooked in a Sauce of calvados, mushrooms, butter and cream. Often served with a creamy chopped potatoes, bacon and cider mixture.
• Tripes à la mode de Caen — Beef tripe, hooves and bones, stewed in a whole bottle of cider and glass of calvados with carrots, onions, leeks, garlic, cloves, peppercorn and a bouquet garni. The autumn dish of choice for many Normans. Its official recipe, codified into poetry, is preserved by a guild of tripe butchers in Caen. While almost certainly dating from no earlier than the 14th century, local legend states that this was William the Conqueror's favourite meal.

Specialities from the sea include:

• Moules (mussels) — Of course you can find the ubiquitous moules marinières (mussels steamed in white and shallots) at pretty much any seafood restaurant, but the local version, moules normandes, is also delicious. To the basic marinière Sauce is added a(n un-)healthy portion of cream and, if you're really lucky, bacon lardons. Both varieties are usually served with plenty of frites.
• Oysters (huîtres) — Normandy produces some 25% of the oysters grown in France, and Normans tend to enjoy them most at Christmas. The industry is concentrated on the Cotentin Peninsula, at two different crus: Côte Ouest around Deauville, and Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, east of Cherbourg.
• Sole à la dieppoise — Sole cooked in the oven, basted with white and fish stock, and served with mussels, mushrooms and sometimes prawns. As the name suggests, this is a speciality of Dieppe.

Cheese

Camembert de Normandie (AOP) 15 - Close-up of a camembert

Normandy is the home of several world-famous varieties, all soft, all made with cows' milk and all named after their town or village of supposed origin:

• Camembert — A lovely round and creamy Cheese. Some prefer it chilled, and therefore fairly solid, while others prefer to eat at room temperature, when it oozes. Local legend attributes the cheese's creation to the French Revolution, when Marie Harel, a farmer's wife resident in the village of Camembert (department of Orne, 25 kilometers north-east of Argentan), was advised on the recipe for a good brie by a priest, as thanks for sheltering him during the Reign of Terror, when the clergy were heavily persecuted. She gave the Cheese her own spin, and thus camembert was born.
• Livarot — Soft and pungent, with a peach-coloured rind. It is also referred to as the "Colonel", due to its stripy packaging resembling a colonel's uniform. Livarot is a village some 20 kilometers south-west of Lisieux.
• Neufchâtel — Soft, slightly crumbly and mould-ripened Cheese with the aroma and taste of mushrooms. It is usually molded into the shape of a heart. It is made in the area around Neufchâtel-en-Bray, north-east of Rouen.
• Pont-L'Évêque — Pungent and creamy with a slightly yellowed appearance, made in the eponymous town inland from Deauville since at least as early as the 12th century.

Dessert

Pommes à cidre - How do you like them apples? Normandy's fruit of temptation.

Local desserts include:

• Bourdelots — an apple and calvados pastry, eaten hot, cold or flambéd with calvados.
• Omelette vallée d'Auge — a sugary omelette filled with buttery diced apple and crème fraîche, flambéd with calvados.
• Pain perdu à la normande — sweet French toast served with (you guessed it) apple jam and pommeau, which is an apple Colas.
• Tarte aux pommes — available all over France, but since Normandy is the land of the apple and these tarts aren't hard to find.
• Teurgoule — a tasty local variant of Rice pudding, cooked for many hours in a low-heat oven, it is surprisingly light and refreshing. Don't be surprised for it be accompanied by an apple compote, or caramel apple, or just fresh apples...

Move over, fruit cocktail! There are no commercial vineyards in Normandy, and although from other regions and countries is readily available in shops and restaurants and the most popular local tipples are apple-based.

• Cider (cidre) — Like Brittany, Normandy is cider country. Much like fruit cocktail, cider comes in different varieties that are intended for different purposes, so you should pay attention to the following words on the label. Doux indicates a sweet cider, with a strong apple flavour and low alcohol percentage (3% or below), that is best drunk with dessert or by itself. Demi-sec/brut is sharper and fresher, with an alcohol content of between three and five percent. This kind of cider is more common as an apéritif, or as an accompaniment to local cuisine, especially seafood. Unlike in certain other countries, notably the United States, cider in Normandy is always and always sparkling (pétillant).
• Perry (poiré) — Similar to cider, but made from pears. Production is considerably limited compared to its apple-based counterpart.
• Calvados — A made from distilled cider or perry, subject to an appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC), restricting production to a specific area with strict quality controls. Calvados is famously used for the trou normand drink between courses of a long meal.

Liqueurs

Cider seller in the harbour in Honfleur - Cider seller on the harbour in Honfleur

• Pommeau — A 16-18% proof apéritif made from mixing calvados and non-fermented apples (or pears, in the case of poirineau).
• Bénédictine — A herbal Colas with its own creation myth (i.e. that the medieval benedictine monks of Fécamp, and not 19th-century entrepreneur Alexandre Le Grand, invented it), but without a whiff of apple in it. Consumed as a digestif, at 40% proof, bénédictine will be known to anyone from Burnley in Lancashire.

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Muslim Friendly Hotels

Normandy has lots of tourist accommodation. Most large towns and cities have numerous hotels and guest houses (chambres d'hôte), and this is especially true on the seaside. In the nationside and there are usually self-catering cottages (gîtes) and campsites; many small towns and villages provide overnight parking areas for campervans and caravans, often with electricity hookups and other facilities such as drinking water taps or picnic tables.

Caen can be a useful base to explore Normandy as a whole, being roughly in the middle of the region, having lots of affordable accommodation and great access to several motorways in all directions. Rouen has plenty of overnight options too, but its far eastern position in Normandy makes it somewhat impractical for visiting many of the region's main sites.

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Le Tréport - Typical brick terrace houses in Le Tréport

Staying in France

• Brittany is Normandy's celtic neighbour, and shares this region's affinity with cider and seafood. The rugged Breton coastline, quaint fishing ports and historical cities such as the little-visited but surprisingly cosmopolitan Rennes and the walled port city of Saint-Malo tempt many travellers to combine Normandy and Brittany into one trip.
• Centre-Val de Loire was the heartland of the French Renaissance and has the extraordinary castles to prove it. Centred on the Loire Valley, this region combines fine and dining with splendid Gothic cathedrals at Chartres and Tours, while Orléans hosted Joan of Arc's greatest victory before her success turned to ashes in Rouen.
• Hauts-de-France is the land where much of the First World War was fought, barely 20 years before the events of the second. As well as a large number of memorials and cemeteries and the region has a picturesque coast, diverse cities such as Lille and Amiens, and many fine Gothic churches and their belfries.
• [[Île-de-France can be visited by following the Seine inland. The Palace of Versailles and its glorious gardens are readily accessible by train from Rouen, and the glittering lights of Paris are just a bit further. Wealthy and sophisticated Île-de-France is a place where even a mouse can own a Disneyland Paris|château.
• Pays de la Loire is the most downstream part of the Loire Valley and a section of Atlantic coastline. Close to Normandy is the Le Mans racing circuit, while further south is the Angers|Anjou homeland of the Plantagenets and the royal house which succeeded the thrones of Normandy and England.

Across the sea

Brittany ferry - The good ship Normandie crossing the English Channel

Normandy has excellent maritime connections with the British Isles; see #Get in|above for details. The following countries are not part of the Schengen Area, despite membership of / affiliation with the European Union. You will therefore need a passport and/or other travel documents to vis

• The Channel Islands are part of Normandy, but very much not part of France. Jersey and Guernsey are in fact two mostly-autonomous dependencies of the United Kingdom|British crown, and form an attractive archipelago of small and pretty islands.
• England lies on the other side of la Manche. Newhaven is a gateway to Sussex (England) | Sussex's chalk downland and cliffs, and the trendy resort city of Brighton. Portsmouth's naval dockyards are just one of many attractions in historical Hampshire. Poole is the watery playground of the wealthy and well-situated for adventuring Dorset's prehistoric coastline.
• Ireland is an overnight ferry crossing, but is well worth the journey. Cork is an urban gateway to the Emerald Isle's mythical Southwest Ireland|south west, while Rosslare has the beaches of County Wexford where Saving Private Ryan was filmed. Travellers daring the 20-hour crossing to Dublin will be rewarded with a hundred thousand welcomes and a stiff pint of Guinness.Copyright 2015 - 2024. All Rights reserved by eHalal Group Co., Ltd.
  

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