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15 Dieppe ivories, and art that TOP CIDER
evokes the town’s 19th-
Dieppe century develop ment as a 3 PRODUCERS
fashionable seaside resort.
! D2 ⌂ Seine-Maritime Boasting the closest beach to Étienne Dupont
£ @ g n Pont Jean Ango; ⌂ Victot-Pontfoll
www.dieppetourisme.com Paris, it was perfect place for
prome nading, seawater cures ∑ calvados-dupont.com
Nestled in a break between and bathing. The well-established
Dupont family has been
Today Dieppe’s air above
chalky cliffs, Dieppe won
EXPERIENCE Normandy port and resort. Prosperity with colourful kites during a Manoir de Grandouet
making delicious cider
broad seafront becomes filled
prestige as a Channel fort,
and calvados since 1887.
came during the 16th and
huge festival each September,
that pulls in professional kite-
17th centuries, when the local
⌂ 3 km (2 miles) from
flyers from around the world.
privateer Jehan Ango raided
Cambremer ∑ manoir-
the Portuguese and English
For the rest of the year, the
de-grandouet.fr
city’s liveliest streets are
fleets, and a trading post
called Petit Dieppe was
half-timbered farm
founded on the West African
produces calvados and
Le Musée de Dieppe
coast. Dieppe’s population around Eglise St-Jacques. The Grandval family’s
award-winning ciders.
was already 30,000 by then, "= ⌂ Rue de Chastes § 02
and included a 300-strong 35 06 61 99 # 10am–6pm Calvados Pierre Huet
community of crafts men who Wed–Sun ¢ Pub hols ⌂ 5 avenue des Tilleuls,
carved imported ivory. This Cambremer ∑ calva
maritime past is celeb rated L’Estran-La Cité de la Mer dos-huet.com
in Le Musée de Dieppe, " ⌂ 37 rue de l’Asile Thomas The 1¼-hour tours (€3)
located in the 15th-century # Daily ¢ 1 Jan, 25 Dec here include the apple
castle crowning the headland ∑ estrancitedelamer.fr press, the alembic and
to the west of the seafront. the cellars, and finish
Here you can see historical with a tasting.
maps and model ships,
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Basse-Seine
bridges: the Brotonne,
! D2 ⌂ Seine-Maritime &
Did You Know? Eure k Le Havre, Rouen the Tancarville and the
Normandie. Their modern
£ @ Yvetot g Le Havre
Dieppe’s annual kite n 8 pl de Maréchal Joffre, grace and daring echo the
soaring aspirations of the
festival attracts over Yvetot; 02 32 70 99 96 abbeys founded in the 7th
500,000 visitors from Meandering seaward from and 8th centuries, which are
all over the globe.
Rouen to Le Havre, the lower now good stepping stones for
(basse) Seine is crossed by a tour of the Lower Seine valley.
three spectacular road West of Rouen is the lovely
Église de St-Georges at St-
Martin-de-Boscherville, which
until the Revolution was the
church of a small abbey. Its
12th-century chapter house
has remarkable statues and
carved capitals. From here the
D67 runs south to the river-
side village of La Bouille.
As you head northwest, an
hourly car ferry at Mesnil-
sous-Jumièges takes you over
to the colossal ruins of the
Abbaye de Jumièges. Founded
in 654, it once housed 900
Elegant Pont de Normandie,
spanning the expanse of the
river Seine near Basse-Seine
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