COTENTIN MARSHES REGIONAL NATURAL PARK
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A park with multiple landscapes, home to an incredibly rich fauna and flora of nesting birds and rare plants.
Created in 1991, the Parc naturel régional des Marais du Cotentin et du Bessin straddles the Manche and Calvados departments, crossing the Cotentin from east to west. Its origins date back more than eight thousand years, when the marshes were valleys, gradually filled in by the melting ice cap. Each tide brought its share of clay and sand deposits, with the sea finding it increasingly difficult to enter these territories, and the marshes gradually formed. Douve, Taute, Vire and Sèves are the four rivers that converge on the Baie des Veys, in the heart of the park, and feed this immense area. The marsh, gradually domesticated by man, is nevertheless home to an incredibly rich fauna and flora of breeding birds and rare plants. The park takes on two very different faces depending on the season: green in summer and mostly covered with water in winter, over hundreds of hectares, creating a splendid landscape. The "Maison du Parc" in Saint-Côme-du-Mont (easily accessible from the Caen-Cherbourg motorway) is the place to go for information, themed exhibitions and even a store: you can spend a good deal of time here, finding out all you need to know before exploring the park. And then, in addition to the fauna, flora and multiple landscapes, savour the silence: absolute, complete, so rare, unequalled.
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An extremely pleasant place!