Cherbourg Harbour, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin

Name: Cherbourg Harbour
Address: Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France

#4 among attractions in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin

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Cherbourg Harbour, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin

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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. As well as Cherbourg Naval Base, it has been used for mercantile shipping. ()

Local name: Rade de Cherbourg Coordinates: 49°39'53"N, 1°37'29"W

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Cherbourg-en-Cotentin France

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Cherbourg Harbour – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Cité de la Mer, Musée Thomas-Henry, Le Trident, Château des Ravalet.

1.3 miS
Museum, Theme park, Aquarium
Cité de la Mer, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
34 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.
1.9 miS
Museum, Art museum
Musée Thomas-Henry, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
49 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.
1.9 miS
Concerts and shows, Theater
Le Trident, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
48 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.
3.5 miSE
Forts and castles
Château des Ravalet, Tourlaville
91 min walk • The Château des Ravalet, also known as Château de Tourlaville, is a sixteenth-century residence, remodeled in 1859 by Viscount de Tocqueville, which stands on the delegated municipality of Tourlaville within the new municipality ...
5.2 miSW
Observatories and planetariums, Museum
Ludiver, Tonneville
132 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.
1.7 miSW
Area
Équeurdreville-Hainneville, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
45 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.
1.2 miS
Museum
Le Redoutable, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
31 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.
1.6 miS
Church
Basilique Sainte-Trinité, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
40 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.
2.2 miS
Botanical garden
Jardin botanique de la Roche Fauconnière, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
57 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.
4.4 miW
Forts and castles
Château Nacqueville
112 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...
5.2 miS
Church
Church of Our Lady
133 min walk • Notre-Dame Church is a 12th century Catholic church in the French commune of Martinvast, in the Manche department of the Normandy region.