Terres-de-Caux is a town in Seine-Maritime, Normandy region, 20 km southeast of Fecamp. It was created on 1 January 2017 following merger of Fauville-en-Caux, its seat (2192 inhabitants), auzouville-auberbosc (318 inhabitants), Bennetot (178 inhabitants), Bermonville (483 inhabitants), Ricarville (322 inhabitants), Saint-Pierre-Lavis (254 inhabitants) and Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Fauville (278 inhabitants). The new municipal entity thus has about 4100 inhabitants.
The vast territory of 38 square kilometers belongs to the natural region of Pays de Caux, a plateau delimited by the Seine to the south, the valleys of the Varenne and Austreberthe east and the coastal cliffs of the Alabaster Coast.
Its rural landscape reflects agriculture dedicated to grain production and farms surrounded by orchards and woodlots.
After the Hundred Years War which affected severely, Fauville and villages now associated, small but prosperous seats lordships, took advantage of their strategic location between the coast and Ile-de-France (development of a large market).
Its heritage, its garden and leisure offer Terres-de-Caux make a pleasant stop before joining the coastal resorts...
The town and its villages can be a health journey of discovery of their heritage assets. In the town of Fauville, which was the seat of an important market in the Middle Ages, the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption catches the eye with its Roman-Byzantine style architecture. It replaced the early twentieth century Romanesque building had become too small. However it was preserved and placed back in the new church baptismal font from the thirteenth century and some statues. The rest of the furniture and decor are contemporary: a fresco painter Henri Charrier, a carved altar, a rose window and stained glass floral of Baker Company of Rouen... Note the octagonal dome that reveals the originality architecture of the church, and its two-tone arches that evoke Cordoba.
An old weeping willow in the cemetery was closed.
On a different note, always on Fauville impossible not to notice the symbolic monumental gate built at the transition to the year 2000, its pillars were made on the old fairgrounds with bricks in 2066 signed the 2066 inhabitants the city on that date. The aim was to reveal to future generations the name of all people living in Fauville-en-Caux during the third millennium.
For recreation, the town, seat of the new town, has a swimming pool (information at +33 2 35 56 25 46), a theater, La Rotonde, with 400 seats and scheduling screening of films via an association local and all quality performances throughout the year. Information at +33 2 35 96 74 11.
Finally, three tennis courts can be booked by visitors and tourists. Contact the municipality in +33 2 35 96 74 11.
Then direction the village of Auzouville-Auberbosc consisting of two hamlets gathered over the centuries. The church of St. Leger Auzouville date sixteenth and eighteenth centuries and is home to interesting paintings.
On Bennetot, the church dedicated to St. Andrew and St. Eutropius was completely rebuilt around 1656 (the date is inscribed on the bell tower) of brick and flint. The renovation of the choir dates from the late nineteenth century, which has unfortunately disappeared high altar of the seventeenth. The baptismal font and a rood beam adorned with a polychrome Christ also seventeenth, however, are still in place. Note the bell tower of beautiful invoice. On the same village, the cemetery cross sandstone face of the seventeenth century Christ on one side and the Virgin on the other.
Manor Vertot finally whose foundations date back to the sixteenth century, protected as historical monuments can be seen from the outside...
A Bermonville, the Church of Our Lady of the Nativity is Romanesque and dates from the twelfth century for its oldest parts. The chorus certainly altered in the fifteenth century, the pointed windows or beautiful original bell tower are to be admired. But the interior is equally rich: a fourteenth stone altar and a fresco of the same time the rest have been unearthed during recent work. To see an altarpiece of the seventeenth century, the baptismal font from the fourteenth whose tank was long "abandoned" in the nearby cemetery or sculptures evoking St. Martin.
On Ricarville, Holy Cross church dates from the twelfth century and if the building has since been remodeled several times and restored in particular we appreciate his porch and beautiful Romanesque door. See, the font of the thirteenth century, a quality statuary, stained glass of the famous house Boulanger (XIX).
It is also the church that is the pride of Saint-Pierre-Lavis, built from the twelfth century and rebuilt several times. It will be observed that a Gallo-Roman period stone engraved with the god Myrta was reused at the time, on an outside wall. The furniture (carved wood choir from 1680, oak canopy from the early eighteenth century above the altar, pulpit) does not lack nobility. A visit to the hamlet of Chaussee then you can admire a beautiful circular dovecote dating from 1584, restored in 1992, considered one of the 50 most beautiful in France!
Finally, the tour ends at Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Fauville whose church rebuilt in the nineteenth century retains elements of the original Romanesque church (baptismal font thirteenth) and statues of the eighteenth.
All the villages forming the new town also apprehend through pleasant hiking and biking trails including the green and wooded areas, orchards, bucolic valleys but light. Maps and information +33 2 35 12 10 10.
For the more adventurous, it is possible to join the Alabaster Coast, at least by bicycle (count twenty kilometers...).
