Selection of the most beautiful monuments in the English Channel

Castle
50330 Tocqueville

Tocqueville Castle, a 16th, 18th and 19th century residence located in Tocqueville in the English Channel, combines Renaissance architecture and English park, famous for hosting Alexis de Tocqueville, author and politician.

Medieval and Renaissance Castle
50340 Sotteville

The castle of Sotteville, a mansion of the late 16th or early 17th century, stands in the Manche in Normandy, surrounded by a park and historical communes. It illustrates the Côtentinaise architectural school.

Castle
50770 Pirou

The castle of Pirou, a former 12th century castle renovated in the 17th century, stands in Pirou, Normandy, surrounded by moats and marked by rich medieval history and modern restorations.

Classic style castle
50460 Urville-Nacqueville

The castle of Nacqueville, a residence from the 15th to the 16th centuries renovated in the 19th century, stands in the North-Cotentin, in Urville-Nacqueville (Manche), surrounded by a 35 hectare English floral park.

Castle
50200 Gratot

Gratot Castle, an ancient fortified house of the 13th, 15th and 17th centuries, stands in Gratot in the Channel (Normandy). Its ruins, surrounded by moat, bear witness to a history linked to the family of Argouges and to a marquisat abandoned in the nineteenth century.

Medieval and Renaissance Castle
50510 Chanteloup

Chanteloup Castle, a former 11th–XVIth century castle, stands in Chanteloup (Manche, Normandy). Renovated in the 14th–XVIth centuries, it combines medieval and Renaissance architecture, surrounded by moat and protected as a historical monument.

Castle
50260 Bricquebec

Bricquebec Castle, a former castle from the 11th to the 16th century, has dominated Normandy from a feudal motte. Its ruins, classified as historical monuments, bear witness to its key role in the Barony of Bricquebec and the Norman conflicts.

Gothic Church
50200 Coutances

Notre-Dame de Coutances Cathedral, a 13th century Norman Gothic masterpiece, has dominated the city from an altitude of 90 metres. It combines a Romanesque structure hidden under a gothic wall and houses exceptional medieval stained glass windows.