Travel Reference
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Shuttle buses (€4 round trip; seven daily Tuesday to Sunday April to October) run by
Veolia
meet most trains to and from Paris.
From Paris Gare St-Lazare there are seven direct daily trains to Vernon (€12.50, 50
minutes), 7km to the west of Giverny. From Rouen (€10.50, 40 minutes), several trains
leave for Vernon before noon; to get back to Rouen there's about one train every hour
between 5pm and 10pm (till 9pm on Saturday).
NEED TO KNOW
Maison et Jardins de Claude Monet
( 02 32 51 28 21;
www.fondation-mon-
et.com
; adult/child under 12yr €6/3.50; 9.30am-6pm Apr-Oct);
Musée des Im-
pressionismes Giverny
( 02 32 51 94 65;
www.museedesimpressionnismesgiverny.com
; 99 rue Claude Monet; adult/child
under 12yr €6.50/3, free 1st Sun of the month; 10am-6pm Apr-Oct)
; Veolia
(
08 25 07 60 27;
www.mobiregion.net
, in French)
Bayeux
POP 14,350
Bayeux has become famous throughout the English-speaking world thanks to a
68m-long piece of painstakingly embroidered cloth: the 11th-century Bayeux
Tapestry, whose 58 scenes vividly tell the story of the Norman invasion of England
in 1066. A great place to soak up the Norman atmosphere, Bayeux' delightful city
centre is crammed with 13th- to 18th-century buildings, including lots of wood-
framed Norman-style houses and a fine Gothic cathedral.
Sights
CATHÉDRALE NOTRE DAME
(rue du Bienvenu; 8.30am-6pm)
Most of Bayeux' spectacular Norman Gothic
cathedral dates from the 13th century, though the crypt (accessible from the north
side of the choir), the arches of the nave and the lower portions of the entrance
towers are 11th-century Romanesque. The central tower was added in the 15th
century; the copper dome dates from the 1860s.
Cathedral
MUSÉE MÉMORIAL DE LA BATAILLE DE NORMANDIE
Museum
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