2020 Cap Fagnet HikeWelcome to Fécamp!
You will be surprised by how easy it is to discover Fécamp on foot.
From the Tourist Office or the train station, which occupy a central location between the port and the city center, our architectural treasures are between 5 and 25 minutes’ walk.
The Fécamp Tourist Office provides luggage lockers to facilitate your stay and your walks.
The Alabaster Coast is 140km of coastline from Le Tréport to Le Havre via Dieppe, Fécamp and Etretat.
The name, Alabaster Coast, comes from its immense white chalk cliffs, forming a great wall plunging into a sea of changing colors. This is moreover what inspired many impressionist painters coming to stay in our beautiful destination.
This wild and vertiginous coast hides a very diverse fauna and flora with its cliffs and pebble beaches offering you the soft sound of the waves coming and going with the tides.
On the cliffs, the beach or at sea: several ways to discover the Albâtre Coast!!
Let’s start with one of Fécamp’s must-sees: the Cap Fagnet!
You will undoubtedly be attracted by this cliff and the silhouette of the Notre-Dame-de-Salut Chapel.
Even though it is the highest point of the Côte d’Albâtre, peaking at 110 meters above sea level, you can reach it without much difficulty on foot via the stairs of the sente au matelot, from the Tourist Office, in 25 to 30 minutes.
Contact us or stop by the Tourist Office for more details!
After a verdant wooded valley, the village overlooking the sea appears, sheltered from the west winds by its Chicard… and upstream, the line of cliffs curves its long vertical wall towards Fécamp, forming a magnificent natural bay, with numerous underground springs, visible at low tide.
Enjoy a quiet and peaceful moment in this fishing village, while tasting on the terrace of one of its restaurants of seafood.
Or take advantage of the GR®21: comfortably shod in hiking boots, you’ll have a postcard view of Yport before descending into the village!
If you are in Fécamp, it is certainly to enjoy the sea spray and its maritime atmosphere!
In this case, a discovery of the port is a must, by walking along the docks and its booms.
GREEN LIGHT - sea trip
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PORT OF FÉCAMP
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Port Fecamp
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Because the green meadows and undergrowth of our countryside are as beautiful and revitalizing as the sight of the sea, we invite you to radiate out into our territory and discover “beautiful corners of Normandy.”
The Pays de Caux is a vast plateau that rises gently to the east, going from 100 to 180 meters in altitude and ends with the cliffs of the Alabaster Coast, the highest of which the Cap Fagnet, in Fécamp with 110 meters high.
The Cauchoise countryside and its villages of character are made up of numerous castles and manors and a particular rural architecture clos-masures.
The clos-masure is a meadow that shelters a farm, surrounded by living hedges that serve as a windbreak curtain to shelter the buildings. These farm and dwelling buildings are traditionally made of brick and flint and are scattered between meadow, pond, orchard and vegetable garden. The trees are planted on a slope about one meter high. Beech, oak or, nowadays, poplar are used because of their rapid growth. This hedge creates a microclimate that generally allows the cultivation of apple trees for the production of cider. It also protects the young livestock and the barnyard.
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Another peculiarity of the Cauchoises countryside: the flax !
Sown in March/April, the flax rises in May, of an undulating green.
It is in June above all that one must come to admire it, its blue flowers with fragile petals in the shape of a funnel open every morning and wither in the afternoons for two weeks. It is an ephemeral and magical period.
Then they become small capsules from which the seeds will be extracted. Later during the summer comes the stage of uprooting, hulling and then retting to facilitate the separation of the flax fibers.
Enjoy these beautiful days to stroll on the Flax Bicycle Route in the middle of the fields!
Champs De Lin Gr21 To Cap Fagnet
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Champs De Lin Gr21 To Cap FagnetStrap on the bikes and pedal along the Véloroute du Lin in the direction of Valmont for a half-day (or even longer) nature ride.
Charming little country village, Valmont has a rich historical and natural heritage: its church, castle, abbey and numerous water mills give you an appointment for a moment of tranquility…
The Valmont is also a small river. Its sources, which flow to Fécamp to throw themselves into the sea, can be seen at the Vivier à Valmont.
On-site, our coach services will be able to take you to Yport, Etretat or Le Havre for the modest sum of 2€ per trip: economical, ecological, practical!
Find the bus schedules at the reception of your Tourist Office.
By bike, train, car, and even boat… choose what you like!
All the information right here!
For the Region’s Nomad buses or the city of Fécamp’s Ficibus, you can buy them directly from the bus driver or on the Atoumod m-ticket. app.
We thank you for keeping our beaches and picnic areas clean by taking your trash away, and appreciate you trying to reduce it.
The best waste is the waste we don’t produce.
We encourage you to choose the products you use carefully.
Pick up and take your trash with you. You will find public trash cans as you pass through our villages. If these are already full, we invite you to save your waste until the next one!”
Some benchmarks:
And yes, the dog is part of the family and he too has the right to a vacation!
Find here the beaches where to walk your four-legged friend!”
