14 Facts About Bayeux

Bayeux is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in northwestern France.

Bayeux is the home of the Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England.

Bayeux is located at the crossroads of RN 13 and the train route Paris-Caen-Cherbourg.

Bayeux station has rail connections to Caen, Cherbourg, Granville and Paris.

River Aure flows through Bayeux, offering panoramic views from a number of locations.

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Bayeux was built on a crossroads between Lisieux and Valognes, developing first on the west bank of the river.

An important city in Normandy, Bayeux was part of the coastal defence of the Roman Empire against the pirates of the region, and a Roman legion was stationed there.

Under Richard the Lionheart, Bayeux was wealthy enough to purchase a municipal charter.

The capture of Bayeux heralded a return to prosperity as new families replaced those decimated by war, and they built some 60 mansions scattered throughout the city, with stone supplanting wood.

The buildings in Bayeux were virtually untouched during the Battle of Normandy, the German forces being fully involved in defending Caen from the Allies.

Bayeux is the home of a memorial to all of the journalists who have lost their lives while reporting.

Bayeux is a major tourist attraction, best known to British and French visitors for the Bayeux Tapestry, made to commemorate events in the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.

The large Norman-Romanesque and Gothic Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Bayeux, consecrated in 1077, was probably the original home of the tapestry, where William's half-brother Odo of Bayeux would have had it displayed.

Jardin botanique de Bayeux is a local botanical garden dating from 1864.