Honfleur

• Millennium City, Honfleur retained multiple witnesses of its history. At the heart of a conservation area of ​​37 hectares, discover its riches. Le Vieux Bassin is the current marina. On one of these sides, the Quai Sainte-Catherine, rises a range of high houses forming a unique backdrop. At the end of Old Dock held the Lieutenancy. It is a large stone building, formerly corner turret and gateway inside the fortified area. It owes its name to the fact that it served as housing the King's Lieutenant in the Old Regime.
• The Church of St. Catherine, built in the second half of the fifteenth century with a separate bell tower from the rest of the building. This is one of the largest wooden churches of France.
• See also: St. Leonard's Church and Our Lady of Grace Chapel.
• The salt warehouses are vast stone buildings dating from the seventeenth century, built by General Farm of Gabelles. They now host the most cultural events in the city (exhibition, show, concert...), and can be visited only with the Tourist Office guide.
• Visit four museums: the Eugène Boudin museum, art museum; the Maisons Satie, dedicated to the musician Erik Satie; the Marine Museum and the Museum of Ethnography.
• Along the Seine Estuary, lie the gardens of Honfleur. Accessible from the boardwalk to the jetty, discover the Garden Personalities, vast landscaped space built to honor important figures in the history of the city: Eugene Boudin, Monet, Alphonse Allais, Erik Satie, Charles Baudelaire...
• To make the most of Honfleur family, here are tours and sites to visit with your children: museums, miniature golf, skating, bowling, adventure, pool, beach, library, cinema...

Many events mark the cultural season in Honfleur.

• Des Festivals:

• "Garden Passionately": two days in April.
• "Jazz in Attics": three days in August.
• "Estuary of laughing" comedy festival: 1 week in September.
• "Russian Film Festival": one week in late November.

• The Traditional Festivities:

• "Marine Day": Whit weekend.
• "Festival of Shrimp", a specialty of fishing Honfleur: October.

• The Markets Honfleur:

• Traditional Market: every Saturday morning, Place Sainte Catherine and Course des Fosses.
• Organic Market: every Wednesday morning, Place Sainte Catherine.
• Fish Market: Thursday through Sunday morning, Pier Transit.
• Night Market: Every Wednesday evening in July / August, Course des Fosses.

• From 18 june to 30 july 2022
• Place de la Porte de Rouen
• Inter-institution gateway project - As part of the festival Paroles Paroles

• From 18 june to 11 july 2022
• Place de la Porte de Rouen
• The small cabinets of curiosities with the Z'ateliers de la tête de bois and the E.Boudin museum. Gateway project from kindergarten to senior high school. - The little cabinets of curiosities are scientific, poetic, humorous, scary, useless, tender or insolent installations... In any case unusual! On the theme of "gardens and landscapes", children and teenagers indulge in the pleasure of collecting objects, stories and images gleaned here and there. With the support of the teaching teams, they throw themselves into creation. The city of Honfleur offers them two magnificent boxes to exhibit the works made during school time: the museum and the media library! Here they are in the court of the great… - Opening on Friday, April 29 at 17h - Location: Honfleur- Musée Eugène Boudin

• From 18 june to 30 july 2022
• Place de la Porte de Rouen
• The small cabinets of curiosities with the Z'ateliers de la tête de bois and the E.Boudin museum. Bridge project from kindergarten to primary school. - The small cabinets of curiosities are scientific, poetic, humorous, frightening, useless, tender or insolent installations... In any case unusual! On the theme of "gardens and landscapes", children and teenagers indulge in the pleasure of collecting objects, stories and images gleaned here and there. With the support of the teaching teams, they throw themselves into creation. The city of Honfleur offers them two magnificent boxes to exhibit the works made during school time: the museum and the media library! Here they are in the big leagues… - Opening on Saturday, June 18 at 11 am - Location: Honfleur- Maurice Delange Media Library

• From 25 june to 27 august 2022
• Place de la Porte de Rouen
• By Réjine Halimi, painter and photographer - Based in Honfleur since 2019, Rejine Halimi presents her paintings and photographs in a setting conducive to contemplation and reflection. - A passionate self-taught artist, Rejine amazes us with the strength and intensity of her photographic and pictorial works. - The media library welcomes him all summer for an exhibition giving pride of place to a whole series of portraits, each more touching than the last, representing elderly people who survived the Holocaust, to which his impressive paintings respond where trace and matter are prominent. - Free entrance

• From 25 june to 17 july 2022
• Boulevard Charles V
• Exhibition of Marion Meunier and Marylise Jozan at the Hospital Chapel, opposite the Naturospace

• On 6 july 2022
• Avenue de Normandie
• Collaborative vegetable garden: Art & creativity workshop at the Honfleur Normandy Outlet garden - Discover our collaborative vegetable garden! Watch it evolve throughout the year with our various workshops! - Information and reservations for educational workshops at the reception / Tourist information office of the village of marques

• From 7 to 8 july 2022
• 3 Rue Paul et Charles Breard
• The place offers its monthly jazz evening. - In July: Tribute to Georges Gerschwing with Philippe Carment - Only by reservation

• On 9 july 2022
• Place de la Porte de Rouen
• By Benoît Noël, author and Bastien Loukia, illustrator - Benoît Noël and Bastien Loukia, author and illustrator of the comic strip On the Wings of Absinthe, released in 2021, published by BVR editions, will make you have a great time by revealing all the little secrets of the green fairy. Honfleur obliges, they will focus their remarks on Alphonse Allais and absinthe with five stripes! - Let's not forget that the author of the new Absinthes published in the newspaper Le Chat Noir and the green monochrome painting entitled Pimps still in the prime of life and belly in the grass drink absinthe, was a connoisseur and heavy consumer of absinthe just like Charles Baudelaire, Alfred Jarry, Charles Cros and so many other wonderful artists of the time.

• On 13 july 2022
• Office de Tourisme, Quai Lepaulmier
• The Honfleur Tourist Office presents a survey that will take you to the heart of the medieval city, deep in the narrow streets. - The people of Honfleur have lost part of their history. Help them regain their memory by going back to the Middle Ages.

• From 13 to 14 july 2022
• Vieux Bassin
• The National day in Honfleur represents a unique opportunity to discover ancestral sailor games that celebrate the maritime traditions of the port city. - The fireworks are fired from the East Pier on the port of Honfleur at 23:15 - Scheduled : - Tuesday 13th : - Entertainment and games in the Canteloup district - 21:00: Torchlight retreat (registration on site) - 22:00: Departure of the torchlight retreat with the Grabbuge Marching Band (departure from the Family House) - Wednesday 14th : - 10:45 a.m.: Rally at the Monument to the Dead, Place Albert Sorel, with laying of wreaths, ringing, minute of silence, national anthem. Review of the fire brigade company and fire fighting equipment by municipal elected officials. Release of pigeons. - 11:15 am / 11:30 am: Demonstration by the young firefighters (duration about 15 minutes), on the Place de l'hôtel-de-Ville - Afternoon: Inclined mat (registration Saturday, July 9 at the town hall), Baptism of the Tropics at the auction and children's games - From 22h to 01h: Popular ball - 23:15: Dock of the East Pier > Big Fireworks

• Simple promenade hiking trail, the country Honfleur and its 13 municipalities welcome you on their territory... Discover these landscapes between Baie de Seine, sea and countryside.
• Near Honfleur, one can also discover the best sights of Normandy.
• The Pays d'Auge and its exceptional terroir: Cider, Calvados, Pont l'Eveque, Livarot. Also discover the cities of the Pays d'Auge: Lisieux, Pont l'Eveque and small villages such as Cambremer, Beuvron-en-Auge... the Cider Route.
• La Côte Fleurie and its resorts: Trouville, Deauville, Villers-sur-Mer, Houlgate, Cabourg...
• Do not forget Deauville, 15 km: Normandy seaside town, it is considered with its casino, palaces, villas classified, its racecourse, its marinas, its congress, its festival of American cinema, its golf courses and nightclubs, as one of the most prestigious in France. It annually attracts thousands of tourists. Its luxury resort reputation earned him regularly frequented by celebrities.
• The landing beaches: Ouistreham (Sword Beach), Courseulles-sur-Mer (Juno Beach), Arromanches (Gold Beach), Collevilles-sur-Mer (Omaha Beach).
• And also the cities of Caen and Bayeux.
• The Alabaster coast. Since Honfleur cross the Seine by the Pont de Normandie and discover Le Havre, Etretat, Fécamp...
• Sites to discover with children: field St Hippolytus 2 km from Lisieux (discovery of wealth from Normandy farm), Cerza zoo, aquariums, sea trips or towing...
• Visit to the cheese Graindorge Livarot: Livarot installed since 1910, it has remained an independent family business. The cheese village offers a unique concept where visitors can discover the cheese shops.