Travel Reference
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St-Pierre-sur-Dives
Like Dives-sur-Mer,
this inland town has a
magnificent covered
market hall. Dating from
the 11th century, it was
the largest medieval hall
in Normandy. After it
burned down in 1944, it
was completely rebuilt in
the style of the original,
using hundreds of
thousands of wooden
pegs instead of screws
and nails. Small local
producers bring their goods to
the Monday market, which spills
out of the hall.
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Cambremer Market
Route du Fromage de Neufchâtel
(see p60)
. Stalls offer a range of
local produce: organic dairy
products, eggs, smoked meat
and fish, jam and the Pays de
Bray cheeses including the
famous Neufchâtel. On Thursday,
there is a livestock market as
well.
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Bayeux
One edge of the market
that fills place St-Patrice every
Saturday morning is devoted to
local smallholders, their home-
grown fruit and vegetables,
home-produced cheese and
sausages, and their livestock:
perhaps a few geese, chickens
and a litter of puppies. The other
stallholders are professional
retailers, selling clothes as well
as food.
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Cambremer
Local people dressed in
peasant costumes, folk dancing,
music-making and horse-drawn
carriage rides are all part of the
fun at Cambremer's traditional
market, staged every Sunday
morning in the market place in
July and August and on special
occasions such as Easter, 1 May
and Whit Sunday. Local producers
mingle with regional craftsmen
and artists.
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St-Lô
There's a typical farmers'
market on Saturday mornings in
the main square of this ancient
and historic town. Here you can
buy fresh produce
from local farmers and
fishermen among the
stalls selling furniture,
clothing and flowers.
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3
Dieppe
St-Valery-les-Roses
English
Channel
Fécamp
Etretat
9
Yvetot
Forges-les-
Eaux
Le Havre
4
Rouen
Deauville
Dives-
sur-Mer
Pont-
Audemer
5
7
Forges-les-Eaux
An excellent
farmers' market is
held on Thursday and
Sunday mornings in
the central square of
this spa town on the
Bayeux
Cambremer
2
0
Caen
8
St-Lô
Vernon
Lisieux
Bernay
6
St-Pierre-
sur-Dives
Evreux
Thury-
Harcourt
Falaise
Vire
1
L'Aigle
Argentan
Flers
Dreux
50
miles
0
km
50
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