:''Not to be confused with the Dutch city named
The Hague.''
'La Hague' is a region on the tip of the
Cotentin peninsula in
Normandy,
France.
La Hague is a picturesque place of
Precambrian granite cliffs, coves and small fields surrounded by hedges. It faces the
Channel Islands and there any many cousins on both side of the
Alderney race.
The dialect of the
Norman language spoken by a minority in the region is called ''
Haguais''. The Norman poet
Côtis-Capel was a native of the region and used the landscape as inspiration for his poetry. The painter
Jean-François Millet was also a native of the region.
The
COGEMA La Hague site, the largest Light Water Reactor Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Plant on Earth (over half of the world's capacity), is located in the region.
External links
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Official website La Hague