Honfleur, a charming city
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En séjournant dans les logements et appartements de notre résidence de tourisme à Honfleur, vous aurez la liberté de découvrir la Côte Fleurie ou encore le Pays d’Auge.
Start your trip to Honfleur
The journey begins at Honfleur, a charming destination ideal at the foot of the Pont de Normandie to spend a romantic weekend or a family holiday. Its picturesque streets, its wooden façades, its small shops, typical restaurants, the Old-Basin, its beaches make it a popular seaside resort, intimate and poetic.
At once A fishing port, trade and craft, the city has managed to preserve and enhance the value of a rich historical and artistic heritage. A must see : the Old Pond, historic port founded by Colbert, the quai Sainte-Catherine, with its very high narrow houses, the area of the Enclosure and the salt barns, the neighborhood and the church of Saint-Léonard, the church of Saint-Catherine the largest church in France constructed of wood with its bell tower, separate...
Since the 19th century, the atmosphere and the light of the city have inspired many artists ; to begin with, Huet, Leprince, Isabey and then the landscape of the Barbizon with Troyon, Daubigny, Corot, and Courbet teach painters of the following generation, the precursor of impressionism as a Pudding or Dubourg, a native of Honfleur, which, in turn, offer their advice to the young impressionists, including Claude Monet. A must see : the Eugène Boudin museum (reopening at the end of June 2016).
Classified Seaside Resort, and Tourism, Honfleur is a resort par excellence. The range of the Loot, the main beach of the town of Honfleur, offers a quality of water that has earned him the title of Blue Flag. It has all the facilities to accommodate you comfortably and safely during the summer : free parking nearby, showers, cabins, equipment rental and a playground for children. The range of Vasouy located in the extension of the road to the coast in the direction of Trouville, will appeal to lovers of peace and quiet...
Have fun, do sports and relax
Great playground, Normandy offers leisure and outdoor activities at will on the sea side or side campaign.
Ideally situated on the estuary of the river Seine, to the gates of the Côte Fleurie and the pays d'auge, Honfleur is to the beautiful-season paradise for water sports and all year round, a lively city and a dynamic that has many art galleries and many museums including the musée Eugène Boudin. It hosts major events including music, comedy, or of the festivities of the sea.
On land or on sea, Honfleur offers multiple leisure activities that will bring you good emotions in a beautiful setting between the sea and the estuary, sailing (catamaran, optimist), stand-up paddle, sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, tennis, bowling, horse riding, hiking and cycling at two steps in the pays d'auge, MICROLIGHTS, parachuting, 27-hole golf (Deauville-Saint-Gatien)...
Honfleur, always very lively and offers a great cultural diversity with its many museums. A visit during your stay in one of our apartment hotels : Eugene Boudin museum (fully renovated), the House Satie (scenic route and musical tribute to the musician and composer Erik Satie was born in these places, in 1866), the museum of Ethnography and Folk Art Norman, museum of the Navy, Naturoscope (the largest butterfly house in France), The Forge (art venue is classified as a " remarkable Art "...
The Salt Barns, the natural surroundings of the sea, gardens, squares, and serve as the backdrop to the many events that marked the year in Honfleur. The great meeting you : market of the potters in march, a fair for the Wine and Passionately in Garden in April, the Feast of the Marine in may, Jazz for Attics in August, the Estuary of laughter in September, the Feast of the Shrimp in October, Russian Film Festival in November...
Check out the Côte Fleurie and its surroundings
On one side, the sea, the Côte Fleurie and the other, the countryside, the pays d'auge. Located in the heart of the Bay of Seine, Honfleur offers countless opportunities for discovery. Gourmet holiday or sports, vacationing, hiking, relaxing at the edge of the sea... the Normandy and its landscape multiple, are the perfect place to have a change of ideas and will offer an air of holidays !
Notre résidence de tourisme à Honfleur vous permet d’envisager toutes les possibilités et de visiter en toute sérénité les incontournables aux alentours.
A 15-minute drive from Honfleur, Villerville-sur-Mer offers a spectacular view on the estuary of the river Seine. Its part of meadows and woods, the beach, 4 km long and its church in the romanesque bell tower, are set in a charming seaside. From the terrace overlooking the beach, a beautiful panorama view onto the Harbour and the Cap de la Hève.
Taking the Pont de Normandie, a genuine architectural masterpiece which crosses the Seine river, you enter in the Seine-Maritime in the discovery of le Havre, inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage site. The centre of the city rebuilt by Auguste Perret, architect major of the Twentieth century, a true " poet of concrete ", offers an incredible unit, an outstanding example of architecture and urban planning of the post-war period.
Separate Deauville by the Touques, Trouville offers a face dispute with its fishing port very busy. Architecture seaside villas by the sea in perfect harmony with the fishermen's houses, narrow streets of the centre (more than 2 km of passages and dead ends). The casino and the fish market are the most emblematic buildings.
While grasslands, dotted with cottages and timber-framed houses, encircled by hedges, criss-crossed with winding roads, the pays d'auge offers wonderful landscapes. Countries of the pie and the apple, its villages are all more beautiful than each other are an ode to the Normandy : Beuvron-en-Auge, Cambremer, Pont-l'evêque, Beaumont-en-Auge, Blangy-le-Château...
To the south of Honfleur, check out the Cider Route, a route marked out of 40 km which will take you through a landscape typical augeron. Real postcard of the Normandy, it takes you to the producers of cider, Calvados and pommeau in a setting of apple orchards, meadows with horses, of half-timbered houses...
On your journey, do not miss to visit the medieval castle of Crèvecœur-en-Auge.
