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Honfleur

Honfleur is a small medieval town, it reveals her riches to all those who take the time to look…
The past is in evidence all around… calling to us… The Old Dock surrounded by picturesque narrow houses, this is with no doubt what catches the eye of every visitor upon their first visit to Honfleur. But the town is also St Catherine, St Etienne, St Léonard churches, the Lieutenance, the old Salt Stores, the medieval cobbled streets …Birth place of the painter Eugène Boudin, Honfleur is recognised as one of the cradles of Impressionism. The estuary of the Seine has always exercised its fascination on numerous artists : painters, writers, musicians : amongst them William Turner, Johan Bartold Jongkind, Gustave Courbet, Claude Monet, Charles Baudelaire, Erik Satie …