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Le Cheval Blanc Honfleur and Hotel Diligence Honfleur are two of our Hotels in Honfleur. Read some information about Honfleur City:
"Honfleur is a commune in the Norman département of Calvados in France, located on the southern bank of the estuary of the Seine, across from le Havre and very close to the exit of the Pont de Normandie. Its 8 177 inhabitants are called Honfleurais.
It is especially known for its old, beautiful picturesque port, characterized by its houses with slate-covered frontages, painted many times by artists, including in particular Gustave Courbet, Eugène Boudin, Claude Monet and Johan Jongkind, forming the école de Honfleur (Honfleur school) which contributed to the appearance of the Impressionist movement. The Sainte-Catherine church, which has a bell-tower separate from the principal building, is the largest church made out of wood in France.
The commune was rated 4 flowers (of 4) in the Concours des villes et villages fleuris.
The church is dedicated to Saint Catherine of Alexandria as evidenced by a wooden sculpture above the porch of the bell-tower which separates the two naves. She is shown holding a wheel and a sword. The first nave is the oldest part of the building, dating to the second half of the 15th century, constructed right after the Hundred Years War. It was built on the model of a market hall, using naval construction techniques, which gives the impression of an upside-down ship's hull. Then the bell-tower was build a good distance away, so that parishioners wouldn't be burnt in case of a fire. Indeed, the bell-tower did draw lightning strikes due to its height and its position on the side of a hill. In the 16th century, a second nave was added, whose vault was like the wooden vaults of modest Gothic churches. This second part was rather rounder, and did not look like a ship's hull. Later, supplementary basy were added to both naves.
The famous "Ax masters" of the naval yards of the city created this lovely building without using any saws, just like their Norman ancestors (who can be seen in action in the Bayeux tapestry), and like the Vikings before them.
The beams used to create the pillars of the nave and the ?sidewalls? are of unequal length, because there weren't anymore any oak trees long enough to construct them. Also, some have a footing of stone, some of greater or lesser height, and some have no footing.
The bays for the choir, redone in the 19th century, are of rather mediocre quality, and the roof above is higher than those of the older parts.
The church is partially covered in chestnut shingles, which are called « essentes » in the local dialect.
The "neonorman" porch was built following the model of rural Normandy churches at the beginning fo the 20th century, and replaced a monumental doorway in neo-classical style from the previous century (which can be seen in certain canvases by Jongkind or Boudin. The doorway itself was in Renaissance style.
It is worth note that the classical organ comes from the parish St. Vincent of Rouen, and the Renaissance balcony is decorated with musicians. Nineteenth century stained glass decorates the windows of the east choir.
The building lacks a transept and the ?sidewalls? of the chapels are uniquely adorned by statues of recent saints, including two local ones: saint Marcouf et sainte Thérèse de Lisieux.
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Église Saint-Étienne (St. Stephen's Church). An old parish church in Gothic style, dating in part to the 14th and 15th centuries. It is the oldest in the city. It is constructed of chalk with flint and of Caen stone, the city of Honfleur being located at the border of those two calcareous rock formations. The bell-tower is covered with a façade essentage of chestnut wood. Today, it is next door to the Naval Museum.
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Église Saint-Léonard (St. Leonard's Church), with a flamboyant Gothic style façade; the rest of the building was rebuilt in the 17th-18th centuries, which explains the unusual form of the bell-tower which forms a sort of a dome.
The interior is entirely painted in murals, including the visible wooden vaulting.
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Salt barns. Two barns remain out of three originals, one having been destroyed by fire. These two buildings contained 10,000 tonnes of salt for preserving the catch of this important fishing port. They were constructed in the 17th century, after the citizens received permission from Colbert. The bulk of the salt came from Brouage. The walls were constructed with great blocks of chalky limestone and wooden vaulting, which, being constructed by naval carpenters, evoke the hulls of vessels of the 17th century.
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Chapelle de Grâce (Grace Chapel). This building was reconstructed after the cliff collapsed. On the exterior, one can see pilgrimage bells.
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Le cotre Sainte-Bernadette, the last crayfishing sloop which is still in shape to sail. It belongs to the La chaloupe d'Honfleur (Honfleur Sloop) association. It was enrolled as a historic monument of France (monuments historiques) as of 18 October 1983.
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Museum Eugène Boudin
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Museum Erik Satie
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Vieux Honfleur Museum (Old Honfleur)
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Naval Museum"
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