Cabourg Casino Gardens – Grand Hotel Cabourg loop from Varaville

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Cabourg Casino Gardens – Grand Hotel Cabourg loop from Varaville

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Cabourg Casino Gardens – Grand Hotel Cabourg loop from Varaville

05:25

21.4km

40m

Hiking

Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 15, 2026

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11.0 km

Promenade Marcel Proust

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Horses, bathers, or simple walkers enjoy strolling along the Marcel Proust promenade and its beach.

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11.2 km

Until the middle of the 19th century, Cabourg was a small fishing village. In the 1850s, Henri Durand-Morimbau, a financier from Paris, developed the plan to build a "modern" seaside resort next to the "old" town. He founded a company that bought up the beaches. On behalf of the company, Paul Leroux, a young architect from Caen, designed the plan for the town of Cabourg-les-Bains. The first casino was built in 1854, and the first grand hotel followed in 1861. The town has retained its semicircular layout in the centre to this day; the streets, which radiate outwards from the Jardins du Casino, are lined with buildings from the Second Empire and the Belle Époque.

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11.2 km

Grand Hotel Cabourg

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This hotel was built in 1861, but renovated in 1907 to its current state. The same year, Marcel Proust stayed there. When he was ten years old (in 1881), he already stayed in Cabourg because of his asthma. Since then, the fashionable writer stayed every year at the Grand Hôtel until 1914. He was inspired by these experiences to write a portrait of beach life at the beginning of the 20th century and of the customs in Cabourg - "Balbec" - during the belle époque.

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11.5 km

Funny bathing cabins

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11.6 km

Cabourg Beach

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Beautiful fine sand beach lined with beautiful colorful villas. The beach here in front of the Grand Hotel is very lively. Moving away towards the dunes you can enjoy the calm and a wilder landscape.

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