Skip to content

Normandy

Things to see in Normandy

46 sights, museums, parks and places worth the stop.

The image shows a large, historic industrial complex with stone buildings, red-tiled roofs, and a tall brick chimney, set in a grassy landscape with autumnal foliage in the foreground.

Rouen · Museums & Culture

Musée de la Mode et du Textile

Rouen's historic textile and fashion museum
A long wooden boardwalk (plank walkway) runs alongside a sandy beach, featuring a row of distinctive red and blue striped beach chairs and umbrellas in the distance, with people strolling along the path.

Deauville · Beaches

Plage de Deauville (The Beach)

Famous red and blue parasols on Normandy's shore
Walkers crossing the sands of the bay towards Mont-Saint-Michel

Mont-Saint-Michel · Coastal & Maritime

Guided Bay Crossing to Mont-Saint-Michel

Walk across the sands to Mont-Saint-Michel with a licensed guide
A museum gallery interior featuring ethnographic and archaeological artifacts, including a large wooden millstone mechanism, glass display cases with tools and objects, and wall panels with French text such as "FRANCE" and "La fabrique Macé".

Caen · Castles

Musée de Normandie

Norman history in William the Conqueror's castle
AI-generated illustration of Gorges de la Sarthe

Saint-céneri-le-gérei · Guided Experiences

Gorges de la Sarthe

12th-century church in a Most Beautiful Village
A formal French garden with intricate boxwood parterres, gravel paths, sculpted topiary, and a central fountain, viewed from an elevated position with urban buildings and distant hills in the background; signage or text not visible in image.

Lisieux · City Centers

Jardin de l'Évêché

Historic French garden in Lis behind the Bishop's Palace
Interior of a large industrial warehouse converted into a museum, featuring wooden rowing shells, a model boat mast, and exhibition panels with French text such as "LES REGATES" and "LES CROISIERS".

Rouen · Harbors

Musée Maritime, Fluvial et Portuaire

Historic port museum with 2,000+ ship models
The Porte d'Amont sea arch on the Étretat cliffs

Etretat · Beaches

Plage de l'Amont

Grey pebble beach on the Alabaster Coast
A long rectangular reflecting pool with lily pads, flanked by manicured lawns, pathways, and rows of white headstones under a clear blue sky, with two American flags on tall poles.

Caen · Cliffs

Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial

Cliffside WWII cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach
The white Belle Époque façade of the Casino Barrière in Deauville

Deauville · Historic Architecture

Casino Barrière de Deauville

1912 historic casino in Deauville
Entrance of the Église Saint-Pierre with the statue of Joan of Arc, Mont-Saint-Michel

Mont-Saint-Michel · Historic Architecture

Église Saint-Pierre (Mont-Saint-Michel)

The parish church of Mont-Saint-Michel on the Grande Rue
The Gothic façade of the Palais de Justice in Rouen

Rouen · Historic Architecture

Palais de Justice

16th-century Gothic judicial architecture in Rouen