Seine-Maritime: what to see and do
32 sites listed in the département. Between the world-famous cliffs of Étretat and Rouen, city of a hundred spires, the Seine-Maritime cultivates an exceptional Norman heritage that inspired the Impressionist painters. The Alabaster Coast and its abbeys complete this strong maritime and artistic identity.
Les Falaises d'Etretat
The cliffs of Étretat are an exceptional natural site where the spectacle of cliffs cut into arches, needles and pinnacles will take your breath away.
Cap d'Antifer
The extreme tip of Cap d'Antifer cannot be passed at sea level, even at low spring tide. It is therefore one of the few points on the coast where the foot of the cliff remains inaccessible.
Chêne d'Allouville-Bellefosse
Planted, according to tradition, nearly a thousand years ago, this pedunculate oak standing in the church square of Allouville-Bellefosse is one of the most famous trees in France.
Rouen
Historic capital of Normandy where Joan of Arc was burned, whose Renaissance Gros-Horloge still overlooks a half-timbered shopping street.
Abbaye St Georges de boscherville
A twelfth-century Benedictine abbey and its 4-ha monastic garden among the most beautiful in northern France, 10 km west of Rouen.
Abbaye de Jumièges
The abbey of Saint-Pierre de Jumièges (Seine-Maritime) was founded by Saint Philibert, son of a Frankish count of Gascony, around 654 on a royal treasury estate at Jumièges. Jumièges abbey became State property again in 1947, then property of the Seine-Maritime département in 2007 as part of…
Abbaye de Montivilliers
Located north of the Seine, halfway between Honfleur and Étretat, Montivilliers abbey is among the most beautiful and prestigious abbeys of Normandy.
Aquabowling des Falaises
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen
The primatial cathedral of Notre-Dame de l'Assomption in Rouen is the town's most prestigious monument.
Château Musée
Witness of the glorious or difficult hours of Dieppe, the only monument – with the churches of Saint-Rémy and Saint-Jacques – to survive the Anglo-Dutch bombardment of 1694, the Old Castle houses the town's maritime memory and one of the finest ivory collections in Europe.
Château d'Arques-la-Bataille
Set on a chalky promontory, the château d'Arques-la-Bataille is an exemplary reference of medieval military architecture.
Château de Dieppe
A rectangular castle resting on a primitive thirteenth-century circular tower with arrow slits and made of circular and rectangular towers adapted to firearms, from the mid-fifteenth century.
Clos Arsène Lupin
Forêt d'Eawy
The forêt d'Eawy is one of the great forests of the Pays de Bray, in Normandy.
Historial Jeanne d'Arc
Discover a visit of a new kind. Through a spectacular and innovative staging, take part in a real judicial investigation to discover the fate of Joan of Arc.
Ifs de la Haye de Routot
La Haye de Routot is a village in the Brotonne forest, in the Eure département. You can see there the largest thousand-year-old yews in France.
Jardin des Plantes de Rouen
Les Jardins d'Étretat
The Étretat gardens offer the most beautiful view of the sea and the famous needle. The property was for sale; a very rich Russian and his partner, a renowned landscape designer, bought it to make a fairy-tale garden.
Manoir de Villers
Musée Départemental des antiquités
Musée Industriel de la Corderie Vallois
Musée Malraux
Musée des Ivoires
Musée des Traditions et Arts Normands
Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen
The Fine Arts Museum brings together one of the most prestigious collections in France.
Palais Bénédictine
The Palais Bénédictine is a building mixing neo-Gothic and neo-Renaissance styles, built in the late nineteenth century at Fécamp for Alexandre-Prosper Le Grand, a spirits merchant who made his fortune inventing and marketing the Bénédictine liqueur.
Parc Zoologique de Cleres
The Clères zoological park is a French zoological and botanical park, part of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and run by the Seine-Maritime Département.
Parc du Bocasse
A Norman leisure park opened in 1967 north of Rouen, known for its mascot bees, its roller coasters including Orochi and its family attractions.
Plage d’Etretat
This beach stretches between the Falaise d'Aval and the Falaise d'Amont that frame the pretty pebble beach of Étretat.
Veules-les-Roses
Veules-les-Roses is a little jewel of the Alabaster Coast. This small seaside resort enchants with superb Norman thatched cottages, gardens overflowing with roses and hydrangeas, and mills of the past.
Falaises de la Côte d'Albâtre
Over 130 kilometres, the white chalk of the Pays de Caux rises in sheer cliffs facing the Channel, punctuated by natural arches famous at Étretat. This changing coastline, sculpted by marine erosion, has inspired painters and writers.
Le Havre
A great Norman port entirely rebuilt in concrete after the war by Auguste Perret, whose town centre is classified as UNESCO World Heritage.