Some - Manche

Some is a department in the French region Normandy and bears the serial number 50. In the north and west the department borders on the English Channel, in the east on the departments Calvados and Orne and in the south to the départements Mayenne and Ille-et-Vilaine.

Regions

The department is divided into the following four arrondissements:

• Avranches arrondissement
• Arrondissement of Cherbourg
• Arrondissement of Coutances
• Arrondissement of Saint-Lô

places

• Avranches
• Carentan
• Cherbourg-Octeville, important port city on the English Channel and largest city in the department
• Coutances
• Équeurdreville-Hainneville
• Granville
• La Glacerie
• Lessay
• Querqueville
• Saint-Lô is the prefecture (administrative seat) of the department.
• Tourlaville
• Valognes

Other goals

• Le Mont-Saint-Michel, famous rock island off the Atlantic coast, also a municipality with 40 inhabitants.
• Regional Natural Park of the Marais du Contentin et du Bessin
• Réserve Naturelle des Marais de la Sangsurière et de l'Adriennerie
• Natural Reserve of the Domaine de Beauguillot

background

language

getting there

By plane

• The airport Cherbourg-Maupertus offers charter flights.
• Aéroport de Caen-Carpiquet at Caen offers regular services from Lyon and Brighton.
• Rennes Aeroport offers domestic connections, flights from the British Isles as well as connections Prague and Madrid. For example, the connections are of interest Strasbourg.

By train

IC trains leave seven times a day Paris-St-Lazare over Caen, Carentan (2:40 hours) and Valognes to Cherbourg (3:15 hours). Five pairs of IC trains a day travel between Paris-Montparnasse and Granville (3–3: 20 hours), with a stop in Villedieu-les-Poêles. With the TER (regional express) from Caen you can reach Saint-Lô (approx. 50 minutes) and Coutances (1:15 hours) every hour, and Avranches (1:45 hours) four times a day. From the Breton Rennes there are TER three times a day to Avranches (about an hour), Coutances and Saint-Lô (about two hours)

By bus

Keolis offers from Rennes and from the TGV train station Dol-de-Bretagne buses direct to Mont-Saint-Michel four or three times a day. The departures of the buses are coordinated with the arrival times of the TGV from Paris. It only takes 3:40 hours from Paris to Mont-Saint-Michel.

In the street

The A 84 motorway (Caen – Rennes) runs through this department, and its north is accessed by the N 13 (Caen – Cherbourg) national road, which is in parts of a motorway-like structure. A cross connection between the two - past the prefecture town of Saint-Lô - is provided by the motorway-like N 174.

By boat

• Cherbourg-Octeville - Ferries from Poole, Portsmouth (England), Rosslare and Dublin (Ireland)

By bicycle

The European long-distance cycle route runs through the department EuroVelo 4, which leads from Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, along the Normandy coast, through Cherbourg, Saint-Lô and Mont-Saint-Michel, to Brittany. In addition, the French cycle route V40 leads over from Paris Chartres and Alencon to Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët and Mont-Saint-Michel.

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Tourist Attractions

• Le Mont-Saint-Michel. The striking rocky island of Mont Saint-Michel is located in a wide bay of the English Channel and is only surrounded by water at high tide.last change: not specified

• Customs path at La Haguelast change: not specifiedType is group designation

• Christian Dior's birthplace and today's museum, in Granville. last change: not specified

• Hambye Abbeylast change: not specified

• Tatihou Island. The Vauville garden.last change: not specified

• Gardens by Argence Sausseylast change: not specified

• National stud of Saint Lôlast change: not specifiedType is group designation

• Mortain Fallslast change: not specified

• Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte Castlelast change: not specified

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