Bayeux Travel Tips
There's one reason why several million visitors descend on Bayeux every year - a 230-foot-long piece of painstakingly embroidered cloth known to the French as La Tapisserie de la Reine Mathilde (Tapestry of Queen Matilda), and to the rest of the world as the Bayeux Tapestry.
Of course, there's more to the town than its impressive needlework - Bayeux was the first town to be liberated after D-Day, and makes a perfect launch pad for exploring the invasion beaches just to the north. It's also one of the few towns in the region to have survived WWII practically unscathed. Its winding streets are crammed with higgledy-piggledy period buildings, including a fine Gothic cathedral and lots of wooden-framed Norman houses.
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Normandy D-Day Beaches & Battlefields
Written by Viator, August 2010
Bayeux makes an ideal launching place to take a trip through history to the final stages of the Second World War. It was on the Normandy coast near Bayeux that the Allies undertook the biggest ...
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Bayeux Suggested Itineraries
Written by Viator, August 2010
The lovely old town of Bayeux is in the département of Calvados, famed for its sought-after butter, cheese, cider and distinctive apple-flavored brandy. The D-Day beaches extend along almost ...
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Historical Bayeux
Written by Philippa Burne, UK, June 2011
Sometimes I am astounded by the sheer age of things in Europe; you can almost feel the weight of history – but in a good way. Bayeux, in Normandy, northern France, close to the coast of the English ...
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