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Category: Historic Sites; Speciality Museums; Monuments/ Statues; Art Museums; History Museums
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This museum houses the famous Bayeux Tapestry, a 70-m long piece of embroidery that graphically tells the story of the 1066...
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This museum houses the famous Bayeux Tapestry, a 70-m long piece of embroidery that graphically tells the story of the 1066 Battle of Hastings.
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Category: Architectural Buildings; Religious Sites
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The cathedral of Notre-Dame in Bayeux is an impressive building, a mix of Romanesque in the 11th century crypt and glorious...
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The cathedral of Notre-Dame in Bayeux is an impressive building, a mix of Romanesque in the 11th century crypt and glorious Gothic in the 13th-century nave. In the 11th century after the Conquest of England by Duke William of Normandy in 1066, ties with England were strong. You'll see a reference to the turbulent past above the south transept portal where sculpted scenes show the life of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury who was assassinated in Canterbury Cathedral on the orders of King Henry II of England. The Bayeux Tapestry was kept here from the 11th to the 18th centuries, probably displayed for the first time on the day the cathedral was consecrated in 1077 in the presence of William the Conqueror.
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"The tour takes you through at the right pace, not too quick, not too slow. It is very informative too, however familiar one thinks one is with the Bayeux tapestry it is a mine of information that was certainly completely new to me. Although the tour does not take that long I feel it is reasonably p..."riced.
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"Having been to the American Cemetery and memorial at Courselles sur mer the day before this was very different, but equally if not more moving. The simplicity and scale of the cemetery and the fact each grave tells a story make this a breathtaking place and a place every British visitor to Bayeux mu..."st see.
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