Château Tourlaville, near Cherbourg Are you planning a visit to Normandy? History lover? You need to know about this important weekend. We discovered European heritage days ‘Journées européennes du patrimoine‘ when the charming owner of a Normandy château refused the usual payment for a tour of his lovely home. Journées européennes du patrimoine Heritage
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Hidden heritage and Seasons Greetings from Normandy
We are particularly fond of this vintage postcard as it is the only one we have every seen with a snowy Normandy scene. It is a picture of Chapelle Saint-Vincent in Launay, probably on a Christmas Eve many years ago. Somehow we tracked the nameless chapel down to Launay, near Ernemont-la-Villette, down
The peculiar chapel of Allouville-Bellefosse
We drove expectantly through the plain fields of the Pays de Caux to Allouville-Bellefose to match this most peculiar postcard. A chapel in a tree, and what a tree! Still alive after centuries leafy branches capped with little man made roofs twist and turn. Inside support has been supplied by someone of the Heath