Les chemins du Mont-Saint-Michel - Chemin de Cherbourg - Hauteville-sur-Mer - Granville

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The route continues along the coast until you reach the seaside resort of Hauteville-sur-Mer, which you will cross by its seawall. You will then cross areas with sandy bottoms, called honey, where carrots are cultivated, fertilized by seaweed, called kelp, which are highly appreciated for their tender flesh. Saltworks, evoke the work of salt which developed from the VIIIth century but the Revolution, by abolishing the internal customs, delivered the white salt harvested by the sauniers to the competition of grey salts, cheaper. The sauniers survived until the 19th century and then became extinct. In the area of Coudeville and Donville, the beaches are bristling with piles, called bouchots, driven into the ground at the bottom of the tidal zone. The mussel farmers raise bouchot mussels there. The stage ends in Granville, a fishing, commercial and leisure port, the upper town is surrounded by ramparts. You will be able to visit Christian Dior's childhood home, transformed into a museum.

From the tourism feed, updated 6 Jan 2026 by Manche Tourisme - Pôle Dév. Produits. Rules can differ by commune, so check the signs on site.