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A
well-located major road junction ideal for exchanges
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With
its geographic location |
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Link between :
 Normandy
& Brittany
the
north and the south west areas of France
northern
and southern Europe (estuary road)
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With
its road network and important traffic |
Avranches will soon
be 40 min away from Rennes & Caen and 3 hours from
Paris
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Main
road (175) linking Paris to the Mont
Saint Michel: an average of 11000 vehicles per day in
the north and 20800 vehicles par day in the south
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The
estuary motorway (A84)
linking Caen to Rennes is the leading road of the Atlantic
facade
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The
forecoming four lane road Avranches-Granville
will be used by a great quantity of lorries coming or
going to Cherbourg: an average of 10328 vehicles per day |
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With
other means of transport nearby |
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Train
station:
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SNCF
train station at Avranches.
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TGV
(high-speed train) station at Rennes.
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Commercial & passenger ports:
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at
Granville (at 20 min).
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at
Saint-Malo
(at 45 min).
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Local
airports
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Caen
(at 40 min).
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Rennes
(at 40 min).
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Intermediate airports
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at
Granville (at 20 min).
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at
Dinard (at 40min).
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With
its crowd of tourists |
French
and foreign
(mainly English).
Local road traffic multiplied by two on the Mont Saint-Michel
road (more than 3 million visitors)
30% of the accomodation possibilities
of the Manche department are located in the district of
Avranches.
3 strong points for tourist attraction: culture, environment
& sports
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With
its history |
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Place
of pilgrimage with the walk across the bay
to the Mont-Saint-Michel and the paths
surrounding it
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Place
where many combats took place during the second
World War before the town's rescue
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Place
of twinnings, co-operations and fraternal links
with the Channel Islands, Great--Britain, the United-States,
Germany,…
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Place
of exchanges on religion, culture and knowledge
around the Mont-Saint-Michel manuscripts, the skull
of Saint-Aubert and the numerous religious buildings. |
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With its
remarkable environment |
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A set of landscapes to enjoy: bocage (countryside with
many hedges, trees and small fields), humid meadows, the
Mont-Saint-Michel bay & estuary, the Mont-Saint-Michel,
the other mount Avranches,… |
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Luxuriant and dense ecosystem living at the rhythm
of the tides within the Mont-Saint-Michel
bay which is part of the UNESCO heritage and
which is highlighted in the context of 'Operation Grand
Site'
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2 famous salmon rivers:
the Sée & the Sélune
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20
ramble circuits to discover along the bay and
the river Sée (pedestrian, mountain biking, bicycle touring,
pony trek)
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The botanical gardens of Avranches
with its very unique view on the Mont-Saint-Michel |
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