ラベノビルの洞窟・トップ4

Don't hesitate to take the small path towards the church. Beautiful view of the castle and memorial to the Waco glider that fell on one of its outbuildings.

From the 19th century with dovecote, park and lake. The old buildings have disappeared. Then La Rivière farm. As you pass, you notice the wooden and cob cart of the Ferme de Gerville. The castle is private property and cannot be visited.

During the religious wars which desolated the country in the course of the 16th century, the lords of Houesville and Cosqueville were massacred by the Protestants. In 1599, we find noble in Houesville, Charles Varroc, sieur de Houesville. In the course of the 17th century, one of the members of the Varroc family was Lord of Houesville. This family bore gules six roses argent. In the middle of the 18th century, Pierre Claude de Varroc, knight, lord of Houesville, sold to Thomas Alexandre "a tenement called the Vivier farm, consisting of manable house, cellar, barn, chartery, stable, bakery, courtyard, two gardens and a circuit of land at the end of the larger of the two gardens". When René Nicolas Frigoult married Jacqueline Le Perchois in 1763, the Vivier estate passed into the Frigoult de Liesville family. The central body of the house, of regular plan with a square floor, with two recessed wings, was built in the 18th century; alterations and addition of pavilions carried out in the 19th century. http://www.chateau-fort-manoir-chateau.eu/chateaux-manche-chateau-a-houesville-chateau-du-vivier.html

Fort Ravenoville (19th century), built on an old square masonry redoubt dating from 1689. The enclosure as well as the old interior guardhouse have been profoundly modified. The remains of the vast "Widerstandsnest 14" next door date from the Nazi-German Atlantic Wall.

Historic 18th century manor, still an active upscale residence of a horse breeding family, surrounded by horse paddocks and even remnants of a water-filled decorative moat. The Château de Houesville, known as the “Château duVivier”, is a property built by the family of the owner's mother, Jean-Yves Lécuyer, Madame Lécuyer née Frigoult de Liesville. The Haras du Vivier is a horse breeding center created by Jean-Yves, one of the largest trotting farms in France. The estate covers more than 500 hectares, 400 of which are owned around the castle, with around ten employees, around 150 trotters and hundreds of cattle and sheep. The stud farm itself produces the hay, oats, corn and barley that it needs for feeding its animals. https://www.wikimanche.fr/Haras_du_Vivier

Palatial views through the grand windows a kilometer all the way down to the beach, now accessible as a hotel and restaurant.