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The holiday homes rented out by Villagrande are mainly located in rural, non urban areas.
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"Et si Eve était normande ...?" On many Calvados labels this question "What if Eve could be a Norman?" can be read. The answer to the question whether the world would have been
very different if Eve would be Norman is probably hidden in the Calvados, full of forbidden fruits (there grow more than one hundred varieties).
In Normandy, fr a change we are not amidst the olives and red wine but amidst the fruit, cream and juicy meat, the Camembert, Pont l'Eveque and Livarot.
Who sails the Seine from Paris, the beautiful banks are registered on the UNESCO World Heritage, across Normandy arrives in Le Havre.
We are in perhaps the most French part of France in an area in which much has happened, where lots of fights and lots of triumphs have been celebrated:
from the Vikings to the landing of Allied troops in 1944. Lots of memorials are built on many places along the coast to remember the landing which marked the ending of WWII.
Then of course there are the cities: Rouen, with its Notre Dame painted by Claude Monet in many variations, Le Havre, beautifully rebuilt after the devastation of WWII,
Caen, a university town with many historic buildings, harbor city Cherbourg and Evreux with its cathedral and beautiful botanical gardens.
Mont Saint-Miche is undoubtedly one of the most prominent places in France. That particular rocky tidal peninsula on the coast at Avranches with
its many stairs and pedestrian-only streets.
Normandy, situated between Paris and London, is rustic and much better preserved than you might think. He or she who has explored Normandy would not be surprised
if it turned out that Eve was indeed a Norman.
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