Pont-l'Eveque: A132
Among the towns of Normandy, Pont-l’Évêque stands out for its long-established cheese tradition and its setting in the Touques valley. The market town lends its name to Pont-l’Évêque, a square washed-rind cow’s-milk cheese recorded in the Middle Ages and still one of Normandy’s defining foods. The Touques runs north through the town toward the English Channel, while the surrounding Pays d’Auge is low farming country of hedged fields, orchards and woodland. Nearby, the A132 forms the road link between the A13 and Deauville on the Côte Fleurie, placing Pont-l’Évêque between inland Normandy and the coast. Its traditional centre gives this busy transport corridor a distinctly local context.
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Pont-l'Évêque occupies the confluence of the Touques, Yvie and Calonne rivers in Normandy's Pays d'Auge. This small Calvados town sits in a pastoral district of orchards, dairy farms and half-timbered Norman houses, between the inland countryside and the Channel coast. Its name is inseparable from Pont-l'Évêque cheese, a washed-rind cow's-milk cheese protected by a French and European designation of origin. The town has long served as a local market centre, while the Touques valley connects it with the nearby resorts and fishing ports of the Côte Fleurie. View additional webcams nearby to better understand how Pont-l'Évêque and the Pays d'Auge relate to the Norman coast.
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