The Normandy. My trip to France, part 1

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Normandy is a land of fighters, hence William the Conqueror invaded England from here departed men colonizzroo part of North America, the Allies landed here in 1944 to begin the liberation of Europe. Napoleon had to be right when he said that the soldier is what he eats, because these lands right in between the outstretched towards Atrantico you can taste the most delicious French cheese, fish and eat the best meat. History vigorous, excellent Cunin, large areas: the region from the Cotentin Peninsula to the Treport, over Dieppe, it is perfect for those who love strong flavors and sensations.
Lyon, the city has three distinct sections: l'ancienne ville, founded by the Romans and developed in the Middle Ages to the right of the Saône, the central villas built between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries on the peninsula formed by the confluence of the Rhone and the Saone, the nouvelle villas on the left of the Rhone, made by academics and those residential neighborhoods more modern.
Rouen built where the Seine could be crossed by a bridge, Rouen has prospered through trade and maritime industries, becoming a rich and cultured. Despite the damage done last quegga the city still boasts a number of historical attractions.
Le Havre strategically located in the estuary of the Seine, was created by Francis I in 1957. The Allied bombing of World War II have virtually razed to the ground, but despite the presence of refineries and industries still retains a certain charm.
COTE D'ALBATROSS alabaster coast takes its name from the water milky and whitish rocks that characterize the Normandy coast in the stretch between Le Havre and Le Treport. And 'known to the Falaise d'Aval in ovet Etretan of a nature to form an arc erosion.
LANDING D - Day in the early hours of June 6, 1944 Allied forces began landing on the Normandy coast, the first step of the invasion of German-occupied France, known as Operation Overland. Paratroopers were launched in Ste Mre Eglise and Pegasus Bridge, and landing troops took ground on beaches from various code names: the Americans on Omaha and Utah to the west, while Canadian and British, with a commando of Free France, on Gold Juno and Sword, after 50 years these beaches are still known by their codenames. Pegasus Bridge, where veins released the first French company, is the starting point for excursions to various places that recall these events. Further west, at Arromanches les Bans, you can still see the remains of the artificial bridge led by Great Britain. War cemeteries American, British and Germans in LA Cambe, Ranville and St. Laurent sur Mer
Baveaux was the first city to be liberated by Allied troops in 1944 and emerged unscathed from the ravages of war. In this small town so close to where it was held, could not miss a museum dedicated to the events of the big hype that between June 6 and August 22, 1944 decided the fate of the Second World War.
AMERICAN BATTLE Monuments Commission the role of the American Battle Monuments Commission is to preserve the memory deisacrifici and heroism of American armed forces in places where they fought. This cemetery extends over 70 hectares, is one of 14 American cemeteries of World War II exist outside the U.S..
Caen half of 'XI century Caen became the favorite residence of William the Conqueror and his wife Queen Matilda. Despite the destruction of the last war, sopravvinono many of the buildings of their time. The most recently built of Caen is a unique museum: the Memorial, a project space for the affirmation of peace, freedom, human rights in the world.
THE GREAT BAY OF MONT. ST. MICHEL monitored, like a sentinel, the stronghold of Granville, a past of fishermen and pirates, and endless sea. In the face Islands Chausey almost fifty crumbs mainland coast welcomes us with the joyful face of a beautiful seaside resort, and gives us some curiosities, like the house of Christian Dior, but the best gift the extraordinary Abbey - Fortress Mont Saint Michel, "Wonder of the West." A complex of buildings is an architectural jewel, in a spectacular location atop a rock in the bay. According to tradition it was founded three dreams that Saint Aubert of Avranches Vesco, made in 708. Mont St. Michel from the outset was a great center of pilgrimage. Before the year one thousand pre-Romanesque church was erected. In the eleventh century, the Romanesque abbey church was built on a set of crypts, at the tip of the cliff, and the first convent buildings were joined to its wall located to the north. In the twelfth century Romanesque monastery buildings were extended in the west and south. In the thirteenth century, domination of the French King Philip Augustus in seguoti the conquest of Normandy, allowed to initiate all of the Gothic "Marvel": two three-storey buildings, crowned by the cloister and the refectory. In the fourteenth century, the Hundred Years' War, was necessary to protect the abbey through a combination of military construction that enabled it to withstand a siege of 30 years. In the fifteenth century Gothic choir replaced the flamboyant choir rmanico in the abbey church. Finally, until the eighteenth century has continued the construction of housing abbeys that form the south facade of the abbey. Transformed into a prison during the Second Empire of the Revolution, the abbey in 1874 was entrusted to the service of Historic Monuments.