Selection of the most beautiful monuments in the English Channel

Manoir
50500 Carentan-les-Marais

The Manor House of Cantepie, a 16th and 17th century manor house, stands in Carentan-les-Marais, Normandy, combining seigneurial architecture and protected historical remains.

Eglise romane et gothique
50140 Mortain-Bocage

The White Abbey of Mortain, a former Cistercian abbey of the 12th-XIIIth centuries, stands at Mortain Bocage in Normandy. Founded by the order of Savigny in 1112 or 1115, it combines primitive Gothic architecture with an enlivened religious history, partially classified with historical monuments since 1920.

Château fort
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.

Château Médiéval et Renaissance
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.

Eglise néo-gothique
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.

Château de style Classique
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.

Eglise gothique
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.

Phare classé 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.