Bye - Bye Bayeux

What a great town to stay in, anchored by La Cathedrale de Bayeux. This town was left mostly untouched by the war, and was the first town liberated (by English). Built in 1st century BC, important to the Romans, destroyed by the Vikings in the 9th century, rebuilt in the early 10th century under the reign of Bothon. In the middle of the 10th century Bayeux was controlled by Hagrold, a pagan Viking.
Cobblestone streets, small rivers flowing through the town with shops and restaurants all-over.
It is the seat of the Bishop of Bayeux & Lisieux and was probably the original home of the Bayeux Tapestry.
The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres long and 50 centimetres tall that depicts the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, led by William, Duke of Normandy challenging Harold II, King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings. 

The Tapestry (1000) years old, amazing story told in pictures, originally for the illiterate.Read more