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Bayeux is located 4 miles from the coast of the English Channel in the Normandy province . It was founded as a Gallo-Roman settlement in the 1st century BC.
Bayeux was the first city of the Battle of Normandy to be liberated, and on 16 June 1944 General Charles de Gaulle made the first of two major speeches in Bayeux in which he made clear that France sided with the Allies.
Hotel
Hospital
Tapestries at the Tapestry Museum
We were not allowed to take pictures of the Bayeux Tapestry. It is an embroidered cloth—not an actual tapestry—nearly 230 ft long, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings.
The Bayeux Tapestry was made in England—not Bayeux—in the 1070s. In 1729 the hanging was rediscovered.
Notre Dame Cathedral of Bayeux
The present cathedral was consecrated on 14 July 1077 in the presence of William, Duke of Normandy and King of England. It was here that William forced Harold Godwinson to take the oath, the breaking of which led to the Norman conquest of England.
There were many beautiful stained glass windows.
