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Bayeux (Normandy - France)

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Bayeux is a commune in the Calvados department, in Normandy, located in the North-West of France. Bayeux is the home of the Bayeux Tapestry, one of the oldest surviving complete tapestries in the world.
Bayeux is located just a few kilometres from the coast of the English Channel and between the city of Caen to the east and the base of the Cotentin Peninsula to the west. The River Aure runs through the town of Bayeux.
The area around Bayeux is called the Bessin which was a province of France until the French Revolution. The name of the town and of its region come from the Celtic tribe of Bajocasses who inhabited the area. During the Second World War Bayeux was one of the first French towns to be liberated during the Battle of Normandy, and on 16 June 1944 General Charles de Gaulle made his first important speech on liberated French soil in Bayeux. The buildings in Bayeux were virtually untouched during the Battle of Normandy as the German forces defending the town were pulled away to help defend Caen. The town hosts the largest British war cemetery in Normandy.
Bayeux is the perfect place to spend a weekend in an exceptional hotel as it is a major tourist attraction, best known to British and French visitors for the Bayeux tapestry, made to commemorate the Norman conquest of England in 1066. The tapestry is believed to have been woven in England. It is displayed in a museum in the town centre. The large Norman-Romanesque Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Bayeux, consecrated in 1077, was the original home of the tapestry.

Access :

By Plane : The closest airport to Bayeux is Caen-Carpiquet, only 21 kilometers from the city, and the seaway connection to Great-Britain, more exactly to Ouisteham-Portsmouth can be found at 32 km from Bayeux.

By Train : The train station is ideally located on the rail track Paris-Saint-Lazare – Cherbourg and the TER track Caen-Rennes.

By car: A13 > Exit Caen > N13 direction Cherbourg > exit No. 38> direction Bayeux

By boat: maritime link to England is the line-Ouistreham Portsmouth (32 km).