Urville-Nacqueville

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Urville-Nacqueville is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune La Hague. It is an amalgam of two pre-existing villages, which were both heavily damaged by Allied bombardments during World War II. ()

Alternative names: Population: 2.3 thous.Area: 4.47 mi²Coordinates: 49°40'39"N, 1°44'26"W

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Urville-Nacqueville – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Cité de la Mer, Musée Thomas-Henry, Le Trident, Jardin botanique du Château de Vauville.

5.9 miE
Museum, Theme park, Aquarium
Cité de la Mer, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
151 min walk • The Cité de la Mer is a maritime museum in Cherbourg, France. The museum is in the cruise terminal of Cherbourg. This monument was built in 1933; it is one of the bigger art-deco monuments of today.
5.9 miSE
Museum, Art museum
Musée Thomas-Henry, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
152 min walk • The Musée des beaux-arts Thomas Henry is a museum at Cherbourg-en-Cotentin with around 300 artworks, mainly paintings from the 15th to 19th centuries. It has been rated as the third most important collection in Normandy.
5.9 miSE
Concerts and shows, Theater
Le Trident, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
152 min walk • Le Trident is a group of three theatres in the city of Cherbourg-Octeville, within the Manche department of Normandy, in northern France. The theatres were made a 'scène nationale' on 14 October 2002, after the merger of the Théâtre de Cherbourg-Scène Nationale and the Théâtre de la Butte-CCPO.
5.5 miSW
Botanical garden, Garden, Park
Jardin botanique du Château de Vauville, Vauville
141 min walk • The Jardin botanique du Château de Vauville, also known as the Jardin botanique de Vauville, is a private botanical garden located on the grounds of the Château de Vauville near Beaumont-Hague in Vauville, Manche, Normandy, France. It is open afternoons in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged.
5.3 miE
Harbor
Cherbourg Harbour, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
134 min walk • Cherbourg Harbour, is a harbour situated at the northern end of the Cotentin Peninsula, on the English Channel coastline, in Normandy, northwestern France. With a surface area of 1,500 hectares, it is the second largest artificial harbour in the world, after the 4,500 hectare Ras Laffan Harbour in Qatar.
3.3 miS
Observatories and planetariums, Museum
Ludiver, Tonneville
84 min walk • Ludiver is a planetarium based in France in the commune of La Hague, in the department of Manche. It overlooks the city Cherbourg-en-Cotentin on the Lande du Pivot.
4.3 miSE
Area
Équeurdreville-Hainneville, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
111 min walk • Équeurdreville-Hainneville is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin. Its population was 16,313 in 2019.
5.9 miE
Museum
Le Redoutable, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
150 min walk • Le Redoutable was the lead boat of her class of ballistic missile submarines in the French Marine Nationale. Commissioned on 1 December 1971, the boat was the first French SNLE.
5.8 miSE
Church
Basilique Sainte-Trinité, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
148 min walk • The Basilica Sainte-Trinité of Cherbourg is a Gothic basilica that stands on the delegated commune of Cherbourg-Octeville within the new commune of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, in the department of Manche, in the region of Normandy.
6.3 miSE
Botanical garden
Jardin botanique de la Roche Fauconnière, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
162 min walk • The Jardin botanique de la Roche Fauconnière is a private botanical garden located in the Parc de la Fauconnière, Cherbourg-Octeville, Manche, Normandy, France. The garden was created in 1870 or 1873 by Alfred Favier and maintained by subsequent family members Léon Favier and Dr. Charles Favier.
1.3 miSE
Forts and castles
Château Nacqueville
34 min walk • The castle of Nacqueville or castle of Fourneville is a residence, of the XVIth century, reworked in the XIXth century, which stands, in the Nord-Cotentin, on the delegated municipality of Urville-Nacqueville within the new municipality of La Hague...