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BAYEUX
, with its perfectly preserved medieval ensemble, magnificent cathedral and world-famous tapestry, is 23km west of Caen - a mere twenty-minute train ride. It's a smaller and much more intimate city, and, despite the large crowds of summer tourists, a far more enjoyable place to visit.
The Town
Housed in an impressive eighteenth-century seminary on rue de Nesmond, the
Bayeux Tapestry
- also known to the French as the Tapisserie de la Reine Mathilde - is a seventy-metre strip of linen that recounts the story of the Norman conquest of...
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