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Granville self catering holiday homes accommodation.
This page lists holiday homes gites cottages accommodation in
Granville and/or closeby. If you are travelling for business
or pleasure please choose from our selection of self catering
accommodation in Granville. The city of Granville is located
in the Manche departement of Basse-Normandie. Granville is a
seaside resort, market and harbour town, built on a rocky point
dominating the Channel. The old walled upper town stands on a
promontory jutting out above the harbour and the lower town,
which has a bathing beach and promenades. Granville is a centre
for yachtsmen and tourists and has a boat service to the Channel
Islands. It is also a fishing port and has a thalassotherapy
(medicinal use of sea water and sea products) centre. The fortified
Citadel has long, narrow, parallel streets of forbidding grey-granite
18th century houses, with dramatic views up and down the coast,
across to Mont St-Michel and out to the Îles Chausey, whose
granite was quarried for the Mont St-Michel buildings. |