Normandy is full of surprises!

                                                 

Under the grass lies a Gallo-Roman Theater. 

A private Renaissance chapel in the Pays de Caux.  Behind the chapel are the remains of a medieval earth fort and this pond which dates back to Antiquity.

   

Meet

a Norman cow

Photo: NS

Local products and specialties:

flax & linen

apples, cider, calvados  (local apple brandy)

cream, butter, & cheese

Douillons made with "poires de coq" (a pastry wrapped around a special type of pear which has been cooked in red wine)

Canard rouennais and Canard de Duclair (duck dishes)

                                                                                                                               Photo: NS

Typical half-timbered thatched roof cottage called a "chaumière"

"Tomorrow at dawn,

 when the countryside is white,

I will leave, I will go through forests,

I will cross mountains ...(to join you)..."

wrote Victor Hugo

on the eve of the anniversary

of his daughter's death.  

You, too, will be invited to wander through

forests, across plains, along river banks and

on top of coastal cliffs to contemplate the wonders and pitfalls

of a two-thousand year Norman heritage

whose development has been inevitably dependent

upon its natural features.