► Ecological museum of apples and cider
In a brick and flint building dating from the 16th Century, Mr and Mrs Godefroy present for your enjoyment a collection of old tools (presses, stills, corking tools, etc.) allowing you to discover the history of cider-making in the Pays de Caux..
In an orchard illustrated by the use of teaching panels, you can learn all about cider apples and then in the cellar they will explain to you their production techniques, which are totally traditional
Finally after your mouth has been watering for almost one hour, you will have the pleasure of being invited to sample their products.
The Orchards of la Brière
1100 rte de Fauville
St Maclou la Brière
Tél. 02 35 27 41 09
www.lesvergersdelabriere.com
► Le Valaine Cheese production
In the exceptional setting of the Manoir de Cateuil, built in the reign of Louis XIV, this farm of some 20 hectares is located at Etretat, on the famous cliffs.
Agnès and Bernard Dherbécourt will give you the opportunity to discover in the course of a guided tour, their animals, their enterprise and its secrets.
You will learn everything about their specialties, traditional and natural products:
The farmer's goats cheese « Le Valaine », the « Les Capr’Ice » ice creams and also « Les Chocolats du Valaine » which are a really surprising and pleasurable novelty, Le Valaine's Home-made Cider and their goats' terrine with Calvados.
-Farm shop
-Visits for groups and individuals
The farm shop sells: :
Home-made goats cheese, goats terrine with Calvados, traditional farm cider, home-made ice-creams: les capr’ice and Valaine chocolates.
Le Valaine, Route du Havre at Etretat
Tél. 02 35 27 14 02 - Fax. 02 35 29 23 92
www.levalaine.com
► The flax shop-window
The flax shop-window at Bretteville du grand Caux (next to Goderville)
Located in part of an 18th Century dwelling that consists of a tumbledown old building that is typical of the Pays de Crux, there is a free display dedicated to the growing of flax right from the seed to the linen material itself, a product of an automated industry, the flax unfurls all of its facets. There are several component samples of this plant shown in this room (tow, oakum, seeds, etc.). It is possible also to buy linen or linen-based products: wall coverings, material by the metre, house or table linen, linen scented products, birthday presents, etc.)
888 rue de la petite chaussée
Tél. 02 35 28 36 79
lavitrinedulin.free.fr
► Museum of the discovery of chocolate at Fécamp
The history of chocolate, its growing methods, its harvesting from the cocoa beans through to the bar of chocolate, everything about the industrial process, a video presentation and tasting at the end of the visit and a look around the factory laboratory. Young and old will be fascinated to see the automation and the chocolate makers.
Sale of hand-made chocolates and ice-creams in the retail section.
Chocolats Hautot
851 rte de Valmont
Tél. 02 35 27 62 02
► Benedictine palace at Fécamp
Unusual and magical with eclectic architecture inspired by the Gothic Renaissance, you are invited here to come and discover a history and a product. Established in 1900, this exceptional Palace presents a collection of ancient art and shows, as part of the tour, the essences of the 27 different plants and spices that are contained in the famous liqueur, the distillery and the cellars, with the contemporary area that puts on exhibitions of paintings and sculpture.
Shop and tasting area.
Rue Alexandre le grand
Tél. 02 35 10 26 10
www.benedictine.fr
