Gite Martin
Gite Martin is a self-catering cottage in rural Normandy, France which can provide accommodation for up to 14 people. It has a fully accessible ground floor en-suite room which is ideal for wheelchair users. The gite shares a swimming pool with 4 other properties on site.
'Berenice' and 'Cedia' gites rural parkland surroundings at Bellefontaine (near Mortain), Normandy
'Berenice' and 'Cedia' gites rural parkland setting at Bellefontaine 50520, Manche, Bas-Normandie, France.
Video taken standing outside gite 'Berenice'
Château de Boucéel - Bed & Breakfast and Cottage
Bed & Breakfast and Cottage - Normandy - Mont Saint Michel Bay
Château de Boucéel, B&B, is located on an estate that dates back to the beginning of the twelfth century. The castle is located at the border of Normandy and Brittany, only 15-minute drive from Mont Saint Michel, World Unesco Heritage. In the middle-Age, it was a step for the pilgrims on their way to Mont Saint Michel.
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AMAZING PERFORMANCE IN SAINT-DENIS, FRANCE!
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Seize the carpet!
Saint Denys was the first Bishop of Paris. Too powerful for the comfort of the Romans in the obscure, small village of Lutêce, they chased him and two pals who were trying to escape to safety in PAYS DE FRANCE, now known as Saint-Denis, just North of the Paris city limits. Denys was surely not decapitated on Montmartre and surely did not walk to Saint-Denis with his head in his hands! Montjoie de Saint-Denis, marked by a series of calvary statues (one of the pedestals is in the place in front of the Basilica of Saint-Denis -- all religious items were destroyed for the most part during The Terror -- is probably an ironic reference to the path he and his two clergy pals took, on their way to this place, and they didn't make it and were decapitated and martyred for their faith probably right around here.
Some time after, a girl in Brittany named Genevieve was inspired to walk to Saint-Denys, no mean feat in her wooden shoes or bare feet, and she worked to erect a chapel here. There was a Merovingian cemetery discovered recently near the Basilica, the world's first Gothic cathedral, and the basilica is built on an old Carolingian church, which you can still see some of in the crypt, in the necropole of the kings.
(You have to pay except for on the first Sunday of each month, or on Saints'-Days or other such important holidays.
Saint-Denis was the number one place of Christian pilgrimage in all of France for a thousand years. The public was never allowed to pray in the basilica -- that was only for clergy and royals. There were churches all around, making this a kind of Christian Disneyland. The faithful filed past the holy relics on certain special days; otherwise, the place was off limits.
The merging of royalty with clergy was a clever PR move done in the Dark Ages. Both groups were in serious decline. If you've ever wondered why royal imagery is mixed in with the church, it's spin.