COMMUNAUTÉ DE COMMUNE BAIE DU COTENTIN

Memory and nature: these could be the two words used to describe this area, which is also well connected to the rest of the département by motorway and rail. Memory, because here you'll find some of the main sites of the 1944 landings, such as Utah-Beach and Sainte-Mère-Eglise. Nature, because here you are in the heart of the Parc naturel régional des Marais du Cotentin et du Bessin, whose capital is Carentan, a pretty shopping town linked to the sea by a canal.