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This is a blog especially for one of my favourite places in Europe, "Normandy" in France! We've been here many times, almost every year since the last 10 years because friends of us have a wonderful cottage here, their second home! I will put some photo's and information about this wonderful province here. There is so much to see and do here!!

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Bayeux

September 8, 2009

Bayeux is a major tourist attraction, best known to British and French visitors for the Bayeux tapestry, made to commemorate events in the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. The tapestry was made by Reine Mathilde, wife of William the Conqueror, and may have been woven in England. It is displayed in a museum in the town centre. The large Norman-Romanesque Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Bayeux consecrated in 1077, was the original home of the tapestry. If you visit Bayeux don't miss the tapestry, it's beautiful. It was a pity that we couldn't make any photo's of it, you'll have to take my word for it.

The Jardin botanique de Bayeux is a botanical garden dating from 1864 which we do not see, maybe next time.