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Normandy gets its name from the Viking Norsemen who sailed up the river Seine in the 9th century.
Normandy is a land of lush pastures, rugged rocky coasts, milk-white cliffs that plunge precipitously in the sea, of vast stretches of sandy beaches. Normandy combines a 360-mile dramatic coastline, including the dramatically evocative World War II landing beaches.
The coast exhibits an astonishing variety of landscapes. Here, the sea sculpts the cliffs with the pounding of its waves, creating a fantasy architecture; there, where its waters stretch on towards infinity, the sea comes to rest on vast expanses of golden sand that disappear and reappear with the tide.
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