Trouville-sur-Mer

Trouville-sur-Mer, commonly referred to as Trouville, is a city of 4 603 inhabitants in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Trouville-sur-Mer borders Deauville across the River Touques. This fishing-village on the English Channel became a popular tourist attraction in Normandy from the 19th century. Its long sandy beach earned then the nickname of "queen of the beaches" or "most beautiful beach in the world".The name of Trouville is frequently associated with the names of the numerous painters that visited it and painted there, especially during the second part of the XIXth century: Claude Monet, Eugène Boudin, Raoul Dufy, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gustave Caillebotte, Fernand Léger, etc.