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 the legend, the tapestry was made by reine mathilde, wife of william the conqueror. in fact, it may have been designed and woven in england. it is displayed in a museum in the town centre. the large norman-romanesque and gothic cathédrale notre-dame de bayeux, consecrated in 1077, was arguably the original home of the tapestry where william's half-brother odo of bayeux (represented on the tapestry with a wooden club at the battle of hastings), would have had it displayed.