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Deauville Beach
Glamorous Belle Époque seaside resort with parasol-dotted sands and the famous wooden boardwalk.
1 km · about 5 min drive
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Trouville-sur-Mer
Normandy, France · Europe
About Trouville-sur-Mer
Trouville-sur-Mer is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Blonville-sur-Mer, 39km from Etretat Cliffs.
Trouville-sur-Mer is in Normandy, France, with about 5,800 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Blonville-sur-Mer, about 5 km away.
Trouville-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [tʁuvil syʁ mɛʁ] , literally Trouville on Sea), commonly referred to as Trouville, is a city of 4,603 inhabitants in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
Trouville-sur-Mer borders Deauville across the River Touques. This fishing-village on theRead more
English Channel became a popular tourist attraction (beach-resort and holiday-destination) in Normandy from the 19th century. Its long sandy beach earned then the nickname of "queen of the beaches" ("Reine des plages") or "most beautiful beach in the world".
The name of Trouville is frequently associated with the names of the numerous painters that visited it and painted there, especially during the second part of the XIXth century: Claude Monet, Eugène Boudin, Raoul Dufy, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gustave Caillebotte, Fernand Léger, etc.
Trouville remains today a city of leisure and vacation with a casino and numerous festivals, as well as a city of culture (Marcel Proust, Marguerite Duras, Raymond Savignac, etc.). Numerous celebrities own vacation homes in the city: Gérard Depardieu, Antoine de Caunes, Bettina Rheims, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Karl Zéro, etc.
Close to Paris and easily accessible by train, Trouville (as well as neighbouring Deauville) earned the nickname of 21st "Arrondissements of Paris".
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What is there to see near Trouville-sur-Mer?
Within an hour or so of Trouville-sur-Mer: Deauville Beach (1 km), Honfleur Old Harbor (13 km), Pont de Normandie (16 km), Etretat Cliffs (39 km).
Are there any good drives near Trouville-sur-Mer?
The nearest famous roads are D-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514) and Rouen-Les-Essarts.
Where is Trouville-sur-Mer?
Trouville-sur-Mer is in Normandy, France, about 5 km from Blonville-sur-Mer.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 5,751
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Region
- Normandy
- Timezone
- Europe/Paris
- Coordinates
- 49.3659, 0.0800
Emergency & Services
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Carrying a warning triangle and hi-vis vest in your vehicle is mandatory. Motorway emergency phones connect to official breakdown services only.
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Worth the detour from Trouville-sur-Mer
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
landmark
Honfleur Old Harbor
A picturesque Normandy port with tall, narrow slate-fronted houses lining the Vieux Bassin, beloved by Impressionist painters.
13 km · about 25 min drive
bridge
Pont de Normandie
A soaring cable-stayed bridge leaping 2 km across the Seine estuary between Le Havre and Honfleur; on opening in 1995 its 856 m main span was the longest of its kind in the world.
16 km · about 30 min drive
natural wonder
Etretat Cliffs
Spectacular white chalk cliffs with dramatic natural arches plunging into the turquoise waters of the English Channel.
39 km · about 45 min drive
museum
Palais Bénédictine
Flamboyant neo-Gothic-and-Renaissance palace in Fécamp built in the 1880s purely to distil Bénédictine liqueur: still a working distillery, with an art collection, aroma room and tasting cellar.
48 km · about 55 min drive
coastal drive
D-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514)
The coast road threading the five 1944 landing beaches from Utah to Sword, past Arromanches' Mulberry harbour remains, gun batteries and memorials: Normandy's essential remembrance drive.
51 km · about 60 min drive
museum
Bayeux Tapestry Museum
Home to the extraordinary 70-meter-long medieval embroidery depicting the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
58 km · about 65 min drive
cathedral
Bayeux Cathedral
A soaring Norman-Gothic cathedral in the first town liberated in 1944, home town of the famous tapestry.
58 km · about 65 min drive
Driving roads near Trouville-sur-Mer
- 16 kmPont de NormandieA soaring cable-stayed bridge leaping 2 km across the Seine estuary between Le Havre and Honfleur; on opening in 1995 its 856 m main span was the longest of its kind in the world.
- 51 kmD-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514)The coast road threading the five 1944 landing beaches from Utah to Sword, past Arromanches' Mulberry harbour remains, gun batteries and memorials: Normandy's essential remembrance drive.
- 64 kmSuisse NormandeA miniature Alps of green gorges and rocky bluffs along the River Orne, beloved by drivers and climbers.
- 67 kmRouen-Les-EssartsA fearsome downhill road circuit whose cobbled Nouveau Monde hairpin hosted five French Grands Prix. The track closed in 1994 and the pits were demolished, but the roads through the Normandy forest remain public and the hairpin is unmistakable.
- 77 kmPointe du HocCratered clifftop where US Rangers scaled sheer rock under fire on D-Day, bunkers still scarring the landscape.
Driving in France
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€1.85/litre
- Motorway tolls
- ~€10.00/100km
When to drive here
April to October
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