Etretat represents some high cliffs and stunning limestone in the form of springs, as we can rarely imagine. Its scenery seems unreal, but what's unreal becomes real when you get there.

Awesome natural spot

When you reach the cliff for the first time, you can say a great wooooow! The small beach promenade designed for tourists is between two high natural cliffs, Falaise d'Aval d'upstream and each arc or equipment and Porte d'Aval. Both are superb, you do not know where to look and where to go rather: to the right (Porte d'upstream) or to the left (Porte d'Aval). After senses of amazement you can climb the Falaise d'Avaluntil where the world seems already tight, and then get on to the right to the Falaise d'upstream where is a small church, Notre Dame de La Garde. You feel big and like in the mountains, because you 're on the beach at an altitude 0, but as you look left and right you realize you're in the middle of the Half Pipe, as cliffs reach up to 90 m. And because we're in this, the path you can walk on the cliffs raised part of the long distance hiking route GR 21 which leaves from and arrives in Le Havre and Le Treporti, where the cliffs reach even 110 m, the greater height of the cliff on the coast.

Description

Located on the village of Etretat, the Alabaster Coast was less besieged as Honfleur. It owes its prosperity and reputation for the discoverers and for the writers Alexandre Dumas and Guy de Maupassant and for the painters: Delacroix, Courbet, Boudin and Monet. The road is hooked up by many stairs, slippery trails and magnificent landscapes.

Claude Monet Terrace

There is Claude Monet Terrace. At the end of a street with beautiful buildings there is a great terrace, caught exactly one bay side of two parts, as in a clamp opened, white limestone cliffs, high and steep. The vast left dug of a large window in the water from the rock seems to stretch a leg before bathe. It appears as a kind of triumphal arch with a "needle" (a sharp formation of 70 meters high). The second arch, La Manne Gates offer stunning landscapes of the rock on the left. You can seat in front of the waves where Monet painted the sailboats that went fishing for herring and the landscape on the left side gives an understanding of his passion for the life and water, the exchangers amazing colors and everything that reflects into it. Old boats converted into houses covered with reeds, suggesting beating friendly seagulls beaking like that would not spoil the breeze, the blue sea turmoil, the elegant villas on the green rock and the entire village. These are privileged moments, recorded in memory along with the view of Rocamadour at night, walking near the Atlantic shore of Lagos (Portugal), meeting with David (Michelangelo, Florence) and St. Peter's markets (Rome) and there are enough ... for another time.

Etretat landscapes

The landscapes at Etretat are just a page from the book of paintings in the water where the ocean, the sea and the river are the main characters. These are the places where you can see Monet- the painting living water course, which he created himself: the water lily pond next to an exceptional garden!