Bénouville – Old Les Loges station loop from Bordeaux-Saint-Clair

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Bénouville – Old Les Loges station loop from Bordeaux-Saint-Clair

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Bénouville – Old Les Loges station loop from Bordeaux-Saint-Clair

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13.0km

120m

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Easy bike ride. Mostly paved surfaces. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 26, 2026

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5.09 km

Château de Bénouville

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Château de Bénouville is a neoclassical building in Bénouville, Normandy, near Caen (northern France). It was designed by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux and built between 1770 and 1780 for the marquis of Livry and his marquise Thérèse Bonne Gillain de Bénouville1. It is one of the best preserved works of Ledoux and a major monument of neoclassical architecture1. It is now a place of exhibition and cultural events.

The château has a rich history, especially during World War II, when it was used as a maternity hospital and a resistance base by its director Léa Vion, who helped transmit information to the Allies4. The singer Gérard Lenorman was born there in 1945.

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Bénouville

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The church is dedicated to Notre-Dame: its choir from the end of the 12th century has pointed vaults and its nave probably dates from the 16th or the beginning of the 17th century.
The choir was decorated with frescoes by the religious painter Louis Chifflet around 1895: there are two paintings in arcades, each representing a scene from "the childhood of Christ". In the nave a funerary plaque dated 1768 mentions Antoine Gillain, Marquis de Bénouville. The coat of arms of the Gillain family are inserted in an oval Sable and composed of a chevron Or, a silver crescent to the dexter, a gold star to the sinister and an armed and langued lion gules in point, the whole surmounted by a crown of marquis.
Two wooden statues hold the attention:
Saint Eutrope (XVI-XVIIth century); bishop healer of dropsy1
Our Lady of the Harbor
We also note the existence of a remarkable Eucharistic reserve in polychrome stone. It consists of two superimposed cylindrical floors crowned with a dove.
mairie-benouville.fr/tourisme/eglise

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9.14 km

Cafe and crepes

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9.14 km

Old Les Loges station

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Highly recommended is the ride on the Velo-Rails, which takes you directly down to Etretat. All you have to do is pedal, like riding a bike. It's basically the same, only on old rails. Then you return in an old retro train. Absolutely beautiful. And since our little one was only 4 months old at the time, we were able to easily strap a baby car seat onto the seat and transport the folded stroller frame with us.

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