Pirou
Pirou is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. It is around 50 km south of Cherbourg and 90 km west of Caen. The inhabitants are called Pirouais.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Melospawn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 1,460 residents
- Description: commune in Manche, France
- Postal codes: 50770 and 50770
Places of Interest
Highlights include Église Saint-Martin de Pirou and Château de Pirou.
Église Saint-Martin de Pirou
Church
Photo: ChBougui, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Église Saint-Martin de Pirou is a church.
Château de Pirou
Castle
Photo: Selbymay, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Château de Pirou is a castle in the commune of Pirou, in the département of Manche, France. The castle was initially built of wood, then of stone in the 12th century and belonged to the lords of Pirou.
Chapelle Saint-Michel de Pirou
Church
Photo: ChBougui, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chapelle Saint-Michel de Pirou is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Créances and Lessay.
Créances
Village
Photo: Xfigpower, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Créances is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Lessay
Village
Photo: Sieurcoug, Public domain.
Lessay is a commune in the Manche department in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, the former commune of Angoville-sur-Ay was merged into Lessay. Lessay is situated 5 km northeast of Pirou.
Geffosses
Village
Photo: Xfigpower, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Geffosses is a commune in the Manche department in north-western France. Geffosses is situated 6 km south of Pirou.
Pirou
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Pirou, Arrondissement of Coutances, Manche, Normandy, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.18158° or 49° 10′ 54″ northLongitude
-1.57593° or 1° 34′ 33″ westPopulation
1,460Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)Open location code
8CXW5CJF+JJOpenStreetMap ID
node 271863082OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2987037Wikidata ID
Q733902
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover Pirou from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Pirou” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Pirou”
- Aragonese: “Pirou”
- Arpitan: “Pirou”
- Asturian: “Pirou”
- Bambara: “Pirou”
- Basque: “Pirou”
- Bavarian: “Pirou”
- Breton: “Pirou”
- Buginese: “Pirou”
- Cajun French: “Pirou”
- Catalan: “Pirou”
- Cebuano: “Pirou”
- Chechen: “ПигӀу”
- Chinese: “Pirou”
- Chinese: “皮鲁”
- Corsican: “Pirou”
- Croatian: “Pirou”
- Czech: “Pirou”
- Danish: “Pirou”
- Dimli (individual language): “Pirou”
- Dutch: “Pirou”
- Esperanto: “Pirou”
- Estonian: “Pirou”
- Faroese: “Pirou”
- Finnish: “Pirou”
- French: “Pirou”
- Friulian: “Pirou”
- Galician: “Pirou”
- German: “Pirou”
- Greek: “Πιρού”
- Hungarian: “Pirou”
- Icelandic: “Pirou”
- Ido: “Pirou”
- Indonesian: “Pirou”
- Interlingua: “Pirou”
- Interlingue: “Pirou”
- Irish: “Pirou”
- Italian: “Pirou”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Pirou”
- Kabyle: “Pirou”
- Kalaallisut: “Pirou”
- Kazakh: “Пиру”
- Kongo: “Pirou”
- Ladin: “Pirou”
- Latin: “Pirou”
- Latvian: “Pirou”
- Ligurian: “Pirou”
- Limburgan: “Pirou”
- Lithuanian: “Pirou”
- Low German: “Pirou”
- Luxembourgish: “Pirou”
- Mainfränkisch: “Pirou”
- Malagasy: “Pirou”
- Malay: “Pirou”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pirou”
- Minangkabau: “Pirou”
- Narom: “Pirou”
- Neapolitan: “Pirou”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pirou”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pirou”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pirou”
- Papiamento: “Pirou”
- Picard: “Pirou”
- Piemontese: “Pirou”
- Polish: “Pirou”
- Portuguese: “Pirou”
- Prussian: “Pirou”
- Romagnol: “Pirou”
- Romanian: “Pirou”
- Romansh: “Pirou”
- Sardinian: “Pirou”
- Scots: “Pirou”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Pirou”
- Serbian: “Pirou”
- Sicilian: “Pirou”
- Slovak: “Pirou”
- Spanish: “Pirou”
- Swahili: “Pirou”
- Swedish: “Pirou”
- Swiss German: “Pirou”
- Tatar: “Пиру”
- Turkish: “Pirou”
- Ukrainian: “Піру”
- Uzbek: “Pirou”
- Venetian: “Pirou”
- Vietnamese: “Pirou”
- Vlaams: “Pirou”
- Volapük: “Pirou”
- Walloon: “Pirou”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pirou”
- Welsh: “Pirou”
- Wolof: “Pirou”
- Zulu: “Pirou”
- “Pirou”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Le Bourg and Le Bas de la Rue.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Moulin de la tortue and Écuries de Pirou.
Normandy: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Orne, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, and Le Havre.
Curious Places to Discover
Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.
About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pirou”. Photo: Melospawn, CC BY-SA 3.0.