Travel Guide Gatteville-Le-Phare

Gatteville was christened in 1947, by reference to the lighthouse erected at the pointe de Pointe in 1834. For history, the first Republican census was 1311 inhabitants. If the small commune has only a few hundred today, it has not been spared the threats of urbanization. So that in 2003, the pointe de Barfleur which stretches over 300 hectares on horseback between Gatteville-le-Phare and Gouberville becomes a site classified and protected. Amateurs of wildlife and flora, the few acres of the swamp of the Barfleur coastline should meet your expectations. However small, the municipality of Gatteville lends itself to the promenade, offering sight of the wild and sometimes chahutés landscapes of the Cotentin coastline.