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  • Sometime regional capital, and an excellent historic base for exploring, this bustling hill-top town is famous for its black pudding.

  • Mortain

    Mortain is surrounded by woods, waterfalls and granite. Two remarkable falls (Grande and Petite Cascade) are within walking distance of the town centre.

  • Mothers and daughters in particular will be drawn to the exhibition of designs by Dior and other top couturiers in Dior’s childhood house, set in a lovely clifftop garden.

  • The heroine of Alexandre Dumas fils’ novel and play lived extravagantly in the Orne. This museum evokes her life.

  • A recreation of the room in which 17th-century locals signed emigration contracts for Québec.

  • A nostalgic look at commerce in the first half of the 20th century.

  • A chilling place, with court room, cells, and a riveting ethnographic museum.

  • Musée Départemental des Sapeurs-Pompiers de l’Orne, Bagnoles-de-l’Orne

    A vast collection of fire pumps and other equipment traces the history of French fire-fighting.

  • Musée du Chemin de Fer Miniature

    One of Europe’s largest model railways.

  • Trouville’s famous beachside aquarium has an ecological bias, with recreated habitats such as mangrove swamps and rainforests.

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