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| Fécamp | ||
| region | Normandy | |
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| Residents | 18.251 (2018) | |
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Fécamp is a port city of Normandy in the department Seine-Maritime on the English Channel between Dieppe and Le Havre.
background
The history of Fécamp goes back to a 7th century Christian settlement that was abandoned in the 9th century after repeated raids by the Vikings. At the end of the 10th century, Normans repopulated the place and built a port and a monastery.
During the Second World War, during the occupation of France by the German Wehrmacht, Fécamp became an evacuation port for the British Army. In the course of the fighting, the port was destroyed by German troops; the city itself remained largely unscathed.
Today the city of Fécamp is the most important port location between Dieppe and Le Havre. It is the administrative seat of the canton of the same name, according to Dieppe the second largest city on the Alabaster Coast and a popular resort.
getting there
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Tourist Attractions
- 1 Abbaye de la Trinité. The former Benedictine abbey Fécamp Abbey with its monastery church from the 12th and 13th centuries now houses the town hall.
- 2 Cape Fagnet. With a height of 105 meters, the viewpoint is the highest point on the French alabaster coast in Normandy, directly above the port entrance of Fécamp. The remains of a radar station and bunker systems of the Atlantic Wall, built during the Second World War by the German occupiers of France, can still be found on the cape.
- 3 Bénédictine Palace. The historicist Bénédictine Palace from the 19th century is now an art museum with medieval sacred art. The historic DOM Bénédictine herbal liqueur distillery is also located here.
- 4 Terre-Neuvas et de la pêche museum, 27 Boulevard Albert 1er, 76400 Fécamp. Tel.: 33 2 35 28 31 99. Museum with the subject areas Newfoundland and fishing.
activities
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- Herbal liqueur Bénédictine based on an old monastery recipe, invented and manufactured in Fécamp.
- B&B, a liqueur made from Bénédictine and cognac ("brandy"), created by a barman in New York in the 1930s. In Europe it is only available in Fécamp.
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Practical advice
trips
- 1 Alabaster Coast.
The Côte d'Albâtre is an approximately 120 km long section of the French English Channel coast, which also includes the coast in front of Fécamp. The coastline extends from Le Tréport in the north to after Le Havre in the south. The coast got its name from the alabaster-colored cliffs that rise over 100 m above sea level at Fécamp. The most imposing rock formations are at Yport and Étretat, about 4 to 15 km southwest of the town of Fécamp.
literature
Web links
- http://www.ville-fecamp.fr/ - Official Fécamp website
