Selection of the most beautiful monuments in the English Channel

Château
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.

Patrimoine défensif
50550 Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue

The Hougue and Tatihou forts, built in the 17th century at Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue in Normandy, form a defensive military ensemble designed by Vauban to protect the bay from English intrusions. Classified at UNESCO, they illustrate maritime military architecture.

Château Médiéval et Renaissance
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.

Eglise romane
50320 La Lucerne-d'Outremer

The Abbey of La Lucerne d'Outremer, founded in the 12th century in La Lucerne-d'Outremer in Normandy, is a former monastery pre-demonstrated by Romanesque and Gothic architecture, partially classified as historical monuments.

Chemins de Compostelle - Au bord des voies
50170 Le Mont-Saint-Michel

The Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel, a Norman medieval jewel, is a Benedictine monastery and then a monastic monastery of the eighth century, perched on a rocky island in the bay of the same name, famous for its Gothic architecture and its turbulent history between spirituality and military resistance.

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.

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.

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.