The section of Seine-Maritime is on the northern shore of France, where the River Seine runs into the English Channel. The coastline is dominated by high, chalk cliffs well-known as the "Alabaster Coast", when inland the valley of the Seine is home to traditional French villages plus the impressive Normandy suspension bridge. The town of Dieppe is not merely among the French ferry ports, it is also among the region's various seaside resorts which continue to be popular with tourist within the UK and in France.
Alabaster Coast
Stretching 130 km over the English Channel, the Alabaster Coast is made up of variety of high, chalk cliffs, several as high as 120 metres. There are paths over the top of these cliffs, that offer fabulous sea views in addition to a excellent day away in the great weather. Should you want to walk the space of the shore, there are many small villages and angling ports that enables you to remain overnight or stop for something to eat. Villages like Etretat with its wooden-roofed marketplace hall and old chapel or Fecamp, nonetheless with a operating harbour, and also home to the monastery where the liqueur Benedictine is produced.
River Seine
Not just exist several excellent camping and cycling routes over the winding banks of the River Seine, nevertheless the valley is also home to a excellent number of abbeys like well-known one at Jumieges or Gothic churches like the one at Caudebec-en-Caux. Jumieges abbey is a ruin, though much of the 7th century walls continue to be standing, together with the two impressive Romanesque towers of the Notre Dame church. At the mouth of the River Seine is the Normandy Bridge, a suspension bridge spanning the 2 kilometres between Le Havre about one region of the estuary to Honfleur about the other. Pedestrians may walk across to take advantage of the good views down the River Seine.
Dieppe
The town of Dieppe is the one of France's oldest seaside resorts and is also nonethelessa busy, operating harbour now. The old town is placed on the cliffs overlooking the port plus the beaches, when the newer element of Dieppe is found at sea level. There are lots of guesthouses and resorts nonetheless open in Dieppe, although the location is not as popular with French tourist as before be at its peak. The Museum of Dieppe not merely features an exhibition about the town's maritime background, but additionally features a big assortment of ivory, among the various exotic products, of landed here from abroad over the last few centuries.
