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BENEDICTINE PALACE

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110, rue Alexandre-Le-Grand, 76400Fine, France
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02.35.10.26.10
2024
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2024

A sumptuous palace combining Gothic, Renaissance, and Art Nouveau styles, a site steeped in history in Fécamp.

Just a stone’s throw from the beach, let yourself be drawn into the maze of this fabulous red-brick building, born of a merchant’s passion for a liqueur, the famous Bénédictine. The story begins at Fécamp Abbey, where monks lived according to the rule of Saint Benedict, based on prayer, manual labor and study. Philosophers and herbalists rubbed shoulders in an atmosphere of alchemy stimulated by the proximity of the cliffs where angelica, hyssop and lemon balm grew, ingredients for elixirs of all kinds. A recipe, developed by the monk Dom Bernardo Vincelli, who had come from Italy with spices from the Orient in his saddlebag, and believed to prolong life, became famous throughout the region over time. Used for three centuries, it disappeared during the French Revolution. But one man found it while sorting through his library! It was Alexandre Le Grand, a local wine merchant with a passion for art and history, who had built up a collection of books and liturgical objects from those bequeathed by his grandfather from the abbey. The text that would make his reputation and fortune appears in one of the grimoires written by Dom Bernardo Vincelli in 1510, revealing the twenty-seven plants that make it up. In 1863, he unlocked its secret and christened it Benedictine. To produce it, he set up a distillery and brought it up to date. In 1872, he decided to open his treasures to the public, and when the factory became too small, he undertook the construction of a palace, inaugurated in 1888. One of the merchant’s "whims" was the oratory, built in the flamboyant Gothic style to reproduce the world of the monks of Fécamp Abbey. The Gothic room, meanwhile, features a wooden framework carved in the shape of an inverted ship’s hull by the port’s carpenters. The Alexandre-Le-Grand room, used for bottling and labeling until 1972, traces the history of the liqueur. The distillery and cellars follow: stills and oak tuns are the heart of the premises. A tasting concludes the visit. And if you want to extend the pleasure, "La Verrière", a bar and tea room created in 2021 by Pierre-Cyrille Acquier, invites you to a unique tasting experience of cocktails, teas and chocolates made with Bénédictine, to be accompanied by delicacies or an aperitif board. We’re particularly fond of the Bénédictine Café, topped with chantilly cream, a little heavy on the alcohol but delicious! The boutique sells Bénédictine in all its forms.


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Visited in august 2023
Grandiose
Le Palais bénédictine trône fièrement en plein centre de la ville.
Je reviendrai volontiers pour en visiter l'intérieur !
Max ou
Visited in july 2023
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Nous avons acheté le « cocktail workshop » cette semaine. Il y avait écrit durée 2h30 mais en réalité nous sommes ressortis en bien moins d'une heure ???? Il n'y a qu'un escalier et deux pièces à visiter comme il y a des travaux, ce qui se fait en 1/4h. Ensuite dégustation de 3 mini verres sympa pendentif 1/4h. Puis réalisation de 3 cocktails là c'est 1/4h d'arnaque ???? D'abord on ne fait que 2 cocktails, ensuite le barman explique qu'on ne met que des demies doses pour goûter (2cl). Bref on paie pour 3 cocktails et on a la quantité que d'un cocktail en tout ???? Cette visite de moins d'une heure vaut 10€ mais certainement pas 35€ ! On déconseille cette arnaque commerciale de la maison ricard qui a racheté bénédictine ???? Et pour finir, si on achète une bouteille, les sacs craquent après 300 mètres pour tout le monde pour faire racheter ? Ça c'est rigolo. Nous on a eu la chance, sac craqué sur l'herbe en face et bouteille pas cassée ????
Manej
Visited in july 2021
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Superbe bâtiment
Même si on est pas fan de la liqueur, le bâtiment en lui-même est sublime. Mais du coup, un peu cher.
Mumutour
Visited in july 2020
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Superbe !
Grand reconfort de voir du beau apres une nuit horrible à l Hotel d Angleterre ( a eviter a tout prix)
Visited in march 2020
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Fierté locale
Aussi beau à voir, sur le plan de l'architecture et de la beauté des lieux, qu’intéressant à découvrir : vous apprendrez l'histoire de cette liqueur connue mondialement et ses étapes de fabrication locale. Vous ne connaissez pas la Bénédictine ? Aucun problème, on vous la fait déguster dans un patio très agréable, ou vous pourrez revenir régulièrement prendre un verre entre amis ! J'ai adoré mais l'entrée n'est quand même pas donnée...

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