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Delve into Biville in France

Biville in the region of Basse-Normandie with its 421 residents is a city in France - some 195 mi or ( 314 km ) West of Paris , the country's capital .

Interactive map of Biville

Current time in Biville is now 07:50 PM (Tuesday) . The local timezone is named " Europe/Paris " with a UTC offset of 1 hours. Depending on your travel modalities, these larger destinations might be interesting for you: Portsmouth, London, Liverpool, Cambridge, and Bristol. While being here, make sure to check out Portsmouth . We encountered some video on the web . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Are you curious about the possible sightseeing spots and facts in Biville ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


Videos

la Hague, une vague de sensations

3:35 min by otlahague
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Teaser de présentation de la Hague ..

Jardin botanique de Vauville - 19/20 Basse Normandie Fr3 - 05/08/10

5:43 min by HorizonPix
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Guernsey Girls Day Dream Beliver

3:26 min by BeyondSteppingStones
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Guernsey Girls, Disco Inferno Adult Weekend at Butlins , Bognor Regis, January 2010 Copious amounts of Embriodery, Knitting and Bell Ringing lessons !! ..

Vidéo session surf à Siouville, La Hague, Cotentin, Normandie

0:56 min by TheBenjaminpictures
Views: 1244 Rating: 5.00

Vidéo session de surf à Siouville. La Hague. Cotentin. Manche, Normandie, France. Surf en Normandie. ..


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Interesting facts about this location

Jardin botanique du Château de Vauville

The Jardin botanique du Château de Vauville (4 hectares), also known as the Jardin botanique de Vauville, is a private botanical garden located on the grounds of the Château de Vauville near Beaumont-Hague in Vauville, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France. It is open afternoons in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. The garden was begun by Eric Pellerin in 1948 on a windy site located within 300 meters of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Located at 49.63 -1.85 (Lat./Long.); Less than 3 km away
Tags: Botanical gardens in France, Gardens in Manche

La Hague

La Hague is a region on the tip of the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, France. La Hague is a picturesque place of Precambrian granite cliffs, coves and small fields surrounded by hedges. It faces the Channel Islands and there any many cousins on both sides of the Alderney race. The dialect of the Norman language spoken by a minority in the region is called Haguais. The Norman poet Côtis-Capel was a native of the region and used the landscape as inspiration for his poetry.

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Located at 49.67 -1.83 (Lat./Long.); Less than 6 km away
Tags: Normandy

COGEMA La Hague site

The AREVA NC (formerly Cogema - Compagnie générale des matières nucléaires) La Hague site is an AREVA nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in La Hague on the French Cotentin Peninsula that currently has nearly half of the world's light water reactor spent nuclear fuel reprocessing capacity. It has been in operation since 1976, and has a capacity of about 1700 tonnes per year. It extracts plutonium which is then recycled into MOX fuel at the Marcoule site.

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Located at 49.68 -1.88 (Lat./Long.); Less than 8 km away
Tags: Buildings and structures in Manche, Nuclear energy in France, Nuclear reprocessing sites, Nuclear technology in France, Radioactive waste

Brécourt

Brécourt was a Nazi Germany bunker started inside an underground French Naval oil storage facility. On July 7, 1943, the site was ordered to be completed as a V-2 rocket launch facility. Early in 1944, the facility was converted to a V-1 flying bomb launch facility and subsequently completed.

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Located at 49.65 -1.67 (Lat./Long.); Less than 12 km away
Tags: Buildings and structures in Manche, History of Manche, Ruins in Lower Normandy, Second World War in the Pas-de-Calais, V-weapon subterranea

1993 Cherbourg incident

The 1993 Cherbourg incident were a series of maritime incidents which took place from 26 March to 2 April 1993 between the Royal Navy and French fishermen as a result of a fishing rights dispute in and around the Channel Islands waters.

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Located at 49.67 -1.67 (Lat./Long.); Less than 12 km away
Tags: 1993 in France, 1993 in the United Kingdom, 20th-century military history of the United Kingdom, Battles and conflicts without fatalities, Conflicts in 1993, Fishing in France, Fishing in the United Kingdom, France–United Kingdom relations, History of fishing, History of the Channel Islands, International maritime incidents, Law of the sea, Maritime incidents in 1993, Maritime incidents in France, Royal Navy