Selection of the most beautiful monuments in Lower Normandy

Headlights classified as MH
50400 Granville

Chausey Lighthouse, 19th-century flagship house on Grande-Île de Chausey (Granville, Normandy), has been guiding ships in a dangerous archipelago since 1848.

Headlights classified as MH
50760 Gatteville-le-Phare

The Gatteville Lighthouse, built in the 18th and 19th centuries in Gatteville-le-Phare (Manche), is the second highest lighthouse in France, pointing to the dangerous currents of the Raz de Barfleur in Normandy.

Headlights classified as MH
50400 Granville

The Cape Lihou Lighthouse, built in the 2nd quarter of the 19th century in Granville, Normandy, is a historic grey granite lighthouse, still in service and classified as a historic monument since 2009.

Headlights classified as MH
50440 Auderville

The Hague Lighthouse, or Goury Lighthouse, is a 19th-century maritime lighthouse located in Alderville, Manche, Normandy. Built on an isolated rock, it signals the raz Blanchard, one of the most powerful currents in Europe.

Headlights classified as MH
50840 Fermanville

The Cape Levi Lighthouse, built in the 19th century and rebuilt in the 20th century in Fermanville (Normandia), is a historical pink granite monument marking the Cherbourg harbour, marked by its destruction in 1944 and its reconstruction in 1948.

Neo-Gothic Church
50300 Avranches

The church of Notre-Dame-des-Champs d'Avranches, a 19th- to 20th-century neogothic building, stands in Carnot Square. Ranked a historic monument, it embodies Norman religious architecture after decades of work marked by historical vicissitudes.

Manor
50260 Saint-Martin-le-Hébert

The manor house of the Court, an old fortified house from the 14th century, rebuilt in the 17th century, stands in Saint-Martin-le-Hébert (Manche, Normandy). Surrounded by moat, this historic monument combines medieval defensive architecture with Renaissance elements, with doves, terraced garden and indoor octagonal wash.

Abbey
61380 Soligny-la-Trappe

The Abbaye de la Trappe, a Cistercian monastery founded in the 12th century in Soligny-la-Trappe in Normandy, is famous for its Trappist reform initiated by Rancé in 1660. Symbol of monastic rigour, it still radiates today.