Deauville

Created from scratch in the mid-nineteenth century by the Duke of Morny, Deauville became in a few decades the reference seaside resort of Parisian then international high society. Its exotic-wood promenade, the famous Planches, runs along the beach for nearly six hundred metres and is lined with bathing cabins each bearing the name of a film personality, echoing the American Film Festival held there each year in September. Around the casino and the grand Hôtel Normandy, with the look of an Anglo-Norman manor, the town has kept its Belle Époque seaside architecture, made of half-timbered villas and steep slate roofs, while the racecourse and the many yearling sales maintain its reputation as a high place of the horse world.

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