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Explore the towns and admire the views which inspired the great Impressionists on this small-group day trip to Honfleur and the Pays d’Auge from Paris. Visit the quaint coastal town of Honfleur with a guide and soak up the atmosphere on the pretty harbor. See sites made famous by painters such as Claude Monet, and discover top attractions including the Old Port and Sainte Catherine Square. Sample fine local cheeses in the Pays d’Auge and enjoy personal attention from your guide on this small-group tour, limited to seven people.
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Duration: 9 hours
Starts: Paris, France
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Explore the towns and admire the views which inspired the great Impressionists on this small-group day trip to Honfleur and the Pays d’Auge from Paris. Visit the quaint coastal town of Honfleur with a guide and soak up the atmosphere on the pretty harbor. See sites made famous by painters such as Claude Monet, and discover top attractions including the Old Port and Sainte Catherine Square. Sample fine local cheeses in the Pays d’Auge and enjoy personal attention from your guide on this small-group tour, limited to seven people.
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Stop At: Honfleur, Honfleur, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, Normandy
Honfleur knew how to preserve the richness of its history, its authenticity. Irresistible, Honfleur is a unique site for lovers of originality.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Le Vieux Bassin, Quai Sainte Catherine, 14600, Honfleur France
The city of painters – one unique atmosphere and one crazy charm and will seduce you certainly. Discover the special light which inspired many painters such Eugène Boudin whose famous sky-scapes explored the changing skies of Honfleur. Stroll through the town in the footsteps of those masters. Discover its picturesque streets and narrow houses covered with slate.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Lieutenance d’ Honfleur, 14600, Honfleur France
Lieutenancy, so called because this monument served from the XVIIth century of lodging to the Lieutenant of the King. It is the only important vestige of the fortifications of the city, overhauled over the centuries, especially in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Saint Catherine’s Church, Rue des Logettes, 14600, Honfleur France
St. Catherine’s Church is a Catholic Church. It has the particularity, very rare in France, to be built mainly in wood.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Musee de la Marine, Quai Saint-Etienne, Honfleur France
St. Stephen’s Church is a former 14th century Catholic church that currently houses the Navy Museum.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Greniers a sel de Honfleur, Rue de la Ville, 14600, Honfleur France
Three salt granaries were built in 1670 for the storage of salt for the salt tax, largely with stones from the old city walls. They used to store 10,000 tonnes of salt for cod fishing. Only two of the three granaries have been preserved and are now owned by the city
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Satie House and Museum (Maisons Satie), 67 boulevard Charles V, 14600, Honfleur France
Dedicated to Erik Satie, whose birthplace
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Eglise Saint-Leonard, Place Saint-Leonard, 14600, Honfleur France
There was already a sanctuary in 1186 on the site of the current church as evidenced by a charter of the abbey of Grestain.
The facade is of Flamboyant Gothic style and only surviving part of the old Gothic building. There are also some rebirths. Most of the church was burned by the Huguenots at the time of the wars of religion in the sixteenth century.
Most of the building was rebuilt in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which explains the particular shape of the domed bell tower, rare in Normandy, but reminiscent of those found in eastern France. The interior is entirely decorated with murals, as well as the apparent timber vault. .
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Les Calvados de Sophie, 8 rue de la Ville, 14600, Honfleur France
Enjoy a local product tasting: Calvados, Cider or Pommeau
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Beaumont-en-Auge, Beaumont-en-Auge, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, Normandy
From the square, you will admire the wide panorama of the Touques Valley, and you will meet two great characters, Laplace and Langlois, in the village.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Pont-L’Eveque, Pont-L’Eveque, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, Normandy
Discover the heart of the Pays d’Auge, Normandy’s must-see crossroads, an exceptional region nestled in lush green countryside
Duration: 30 minutes