Editing Bayeux (section)

==Sights==
[[File:Bayeux Cathedral.JPG|thumb|upright=1.2|right|[[Bayeux Cathedral]] seen from the east.]]
Bayeux is a major tourist attraction, best known to British and French visitors for the [[Bayeux Tapestry]], made to commemorate events in the [[Norman Conquest]] of England in 1066. According to French tradition, the tapestry was made by the attendants of [[Matilda of Flanders]], wife of William the Conqueror. It was almost certainly designed and stitched in England, as evidenced by its English spellings.<ref>''World Book Encyclopedia'', p. 177, World Book Inc.</ref> It is displayed in a museum in the town centre. The large [[Norman architecture|Norman]]-[[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] and [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] [[Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Bayeux]],<ref>[http://france-for-visitors.com/normandy/bayeux/index.html Cathedral of Bayeux: France Tourism Summaries]</ref> consecrated in 1077, was probably the original home of the tapestry, where William's half-brother [[Odo of Bayeux]] (represented on the tapestry wielding a wooden club at the [[Battle of Hastings]]) would have had it displayed.

The [[Jardin botanique de Bayeux]] is a local [[botanical garden]] dating from 1864.

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