Det beste i Étretat

Étretat Essentials

Étretat’s landscape is defined by three massive natural arches—Porte d’Aval, Porte d’Amont, and the Manneporte—and the 70-meter Needle rock. These chalk formations on the Alabaster Coast served as frequent subjects for Claude Monet and other Impressionist painters. Beyond the cliffs, the town features the 19th-century timber-framed Les Halles, the Romanesque Église Notre-Dame, and the avant-garde Les Jardins d’Étretat. Literary history is preserved at Le Clos Lupin, the former residence of author Maurice Leblanc.

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Cliffs of Etretat

High chalk formations overlooking the Alabaster Coast with extensive hiking trails along the GR21 path.

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Porte d'Aval

A natural flint-streaked arch carved by coastal erosion, famously compared by writer Guy de Maupassant to an elephant dipping its trunk into the sea.

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L'Aiguille

A 70-meter-high isolated rock needle standing in the sea, which serves as the central setting for Maurice Leblanc’s mystery novel 'The Hollow Needle'.