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Overview:
Bayeux, France, with its perfectly
preserved medieval ensemble, magnificent cathedral and
world-famous tapestry, is 23km west of Caen – a mere
twenty-minute train ride. It's a smaller and much more intimate
city, and, despite the large crowds of summer tourists, a far
more enjoyable place to visit. It
is a farm and communications center, noted for its lace
industry. A Roman town and Episcopal see from the 4th cent., it
was burned (1105) by Henry I of England. Sections of its
Romanesque church withstood the fire and form a part of the
remarkable Gothic cathedral built for the most part in the 13th
cent. The town is particularly famous for its museum containing
the Bayeux tapestry.
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