Cabourg, France Webcam

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Cabourg is a commune in the Calvados département in the Basse-Normandie region of France and belongs to the Paris Basin. The commune is located next to the sea and the back country is a plain, favorable to the cereal culture.
It was from Cabourg that William the Conqueror drove the troops of Henry I of France back into the sea in 1058. Cabourg is famous for being Marcel Proust’s favorite vacation place at the beginning of the 20th century; it is the original of Balbec, the seaside resort in Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. Cabourg is under the influence of an oceanic climate, with fresh summers and very mild winters.