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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.
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Mortain is surrounded by woods, waterfalls and granite. Two remarkable falls (Grande and Petite Cascade) are within walking distance of the town centre.
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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.
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The heroine of Alexandre Dumas fils’ novel and play lived extravagantly in the Orne. This museum evokes her life.
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A recreation of the room in which 17th-century locals signed emigration contracts for Québec.
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A nostalgic look at commerce in the first half of the 20th century.
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A chilling place, with court room, cells, and a riveting ethnographic museum.
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A vast collection of fire pumps and other equipment traces the history of French fire-fighting.
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One of Europe’s largest model railways.
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Trouville’s famous beachside aquarium has an ecological bias, with recreated habitats such as mangrove swamps and rainforests.
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