Editing Normandy (section)

===Architecture===
[[File:Dauville Hotel Normandie.jpg|thumb|A Norman style construction in [[Deauville]]]]
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Architecturally, Norman cathedrals, abbeys (such as the [[Abbey of Bec]]) and castles characterise the former duchy in a way that mirrors the similar pattern of [[Norman architecture]] in England following the [[Norman Conquest]] of 1066.

Domestic architecture in upper Normandy is typified by [[Half-timbered construction|half-timbered]] buildings that also recall vernacular English architecture, although the farm enclosures of the more harshly landscaped Pays de Caux are a more idiosyncratic response to socio-economic and climatic imperatives. Much urban architectural heritage was destroyed during the Battle of Normandy in 1944 – post-war urban reconstruction, such as in Le Havre and Saint-Lô, could be said to demonstrate both the virtues and vices of [[Modernism|modernist]] and [[Brutalism|brutalist]] trends of the 1950s and 1960s. Le Havre, the city rebuilt by [[Auguste Perret]], was added to Unesco's World Heritage List in 2005.

[[Vernacular architecture]] in lower Normandy takes its form from [[granite]], the predominant local building material. The Channel Islands also share this influence – [[Chausey]] was for many years a source of quarried granite, including that used for the construction of [[Mont Saint-Michel]].

The south part of [[Bagnoles-de-l'Orne]] is filled with bourgeois villas in ''[[Belle Époque]]'' style with polychrome façades, bow windows and unique roofing. This area, built between 1886 and 1914, has an authentic "Bagnolese" style and is typical of high-society country vacation of the time. The Chapel of Saint Germanus (''Chapelle Saint-Germain'') at [[Querqueville]] with its [[trefoil]] floorplan incorporates elements of one of the earliest surviving places of Christian worship in the Cotentin – perhaps second only to the Gallo-Roman baptistry at [[Port-Bail]]. It is dedicated to [[Germanus of Normandy]].