Map of Normandy area, showing travelers where the best hotels and attractions are located. Travel. ... Ideally located on the Seine, Rouen became one of France's greatest ports.

Normandy's location as the closest coastline to Paris attracts beachgoers. It's also why this corner of France has seen more than its share of war.

On June 6, 1944, Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy in northern France in the operation known as D-Day. More than 150,000 troops took part in the largest seaborne invasion in history ...

As D-Day approached, Lamb was assigned the task of creating charts for the landing craft crews who would deliver troops to the Normandy beaches. Referring to huge maps of the French coast pinned ...

The pebbled beach at Falaises, on France's Normandy coast, is known as Etretat Plage and its offshore needles and dramatic cliffs inspired the impressionist painters Boudin, Monet and Manet.

The beach at Trouville, on France's Normandy coast, is known as Trouville Plage and is backed by a 19th century boardwalk that boasts numerous seaside concessions.