monument à Armand de Briqueville, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin

Name: monument à Armand de Briqueville
Address: Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France

#11 among attractions in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin

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Armand François Bon Claude, comte de Bricqueville, born at the family castle in Bretteville on January 23, 1785, died on March 19, 1844 in Paris, was a cavalry colonel in Napoleon's army and deputy of the Manche.

Coordinates: 49°38'25"N, 1°37'18"W

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monument à Armand de Briqueville – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

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

0.5 miNE
Museum, Theme park, Aquarium
Cité de la Mer, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
12 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.
~1140 ftS
Museum, Art museum
Musée Thomas-Henry, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
6 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.
~950 ftS
Concerts and shows, Theater
Le Trident, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
5 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.
0.6 miN
Museum
Le Redoutable, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
15 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.
~760 ftNW
Church
Basilique Sainte-Trinité, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
4 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.
0.5 miSE
Botanical garden
Jardin botanique de la Roche Fauconnière, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
14 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.
0.5 miSE
49°37'60"N • 1°36'59"W
Le Point du jour, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
14 min walk • Museum
0.6 miS
Memorial
War Memorial, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
16 min walk • Monuments aux Morts are French war memorials established to commemorate the losses of World War I.
0.8 miSE
Museum, Forts and castles
Batterie du Roule, Cherbourg-Octeville
20 min walk • The Fort du Roule is a collection of French and German fortifications built in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on the Roule mountain in Cherbourg. The first fortifications were built in 1793 to protect the Bay of Cherbourg from English attacks.
~1180 ftNW
49°38'35"N • 1°37'27"W
Equestrian status of Napoleon, Cherbourg-Octeville
6 min walk • Memorial
1.4 miSW
Church
St. Martin's Church, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
36 min walk • The church of Saint-Martin is a Romanesque Catholic church of the twelfth century, which stands on the delegated commune of Cherbourg-Octeville within the new commune of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, in the department of Manche, in the Normandy region.

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Which popular attractions are close to monument à Armand de Briqueville?

Nearby attractions include Basilique Sainte-Trinité, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (4 min walk), Le Trident, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (5 min walk), Musée Thomas-Henry, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (6 min walk), Equestrian status of Napoleon, Cherbourg-Octeville (6 min walk).

How to get to monument à Armand de Briqueville by public transport?

The nearest stations to monument à Armand de Briqueville:

Bus

Hôtel de Ville • Lines: 4, Cap Cotentin de Nuit Est, Cap Cotentin de Nuit Ouest (6 min walk)
Place Ravenel • Lines: 3, 8 (7 min walk)

Ferry

Passerelle Cherbourg 6 (10 min walk)
Passerelle Cherbourg 4 • Lines: Cherbourg Dublin (19 min walk)

Train

Cherbourg (13 min walk)