Secret Normandy (Jun 24)

Let Secret Normandy guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Normandy guide book. Featuring over 150 unusual and unfamiliar locations, our local experts will show you the well-hidden treasures and hidden places of this amazing region in France. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. Visit an artist's studio set up in a castle, discover chapels built inside a millennial oak, pour calvados on a grave in the village of Camembert, pay your respects at a site where the Virgin Mary has made a score of apparitions, decipher the alchemical decorations at Hotel d'Escoville in Caen, examine a historic pool for washing down horses, seek out the work of a Freemason architect in Rouen cathedral. Far from the crowds and the usual cliches, Normandy is a reserve of well-concealed treasures that only reveal themselves to those residents or visitors who wander off the beaten track. An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew Normandy well, or those who would like to discover the hidden face of the region.