Bayeux
Bayeux is a small town in northern France in Calvados department. Bayeux is best known for the remarkable Bayeux Tapestry that chronicles in visual form the conquest of England by William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, in 1066.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: MairieBayeux, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 12,800 residents
- Description: commune in Calvados, France
- Also known as: “Bayeau” and “Bayeaux”
- Postal codes: 14400 and 14400
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bayeux Cathedral and Bayeux station.
Bayeux Cathedral
Church
Photo: Ndesmoul, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bayeux Cathedral, also known as Cathedral of Our Lady of Bayeux, is a Roman Catholic church located in the town of Bayeux in Normandy, France. A national monument, it is the seat of the Bishop of Bayeux and Lisieux and was probably the original home of the Bayeux Tapestry, still preserved nearby.
Bayeux station
Railway station
Photo: Captain Scarlet, Public domain.
Bayeux station is the train station for the town of Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy. It is situated on the Mantes-la-Jolie–Cherbourg railway. It is a small station with regional trains to Cherbourg, Caen, Paris and Granville.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saint-Vigor-le-Grand and Saint-Loup-Hors.
Saint-Vigor-le-Grand
Village
Photo: Pimprenel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint-Vigor-le-Grand is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
Saint-Loup-Hors
Village
Photo: Roi.dagobert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint-Loup-Hors is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
Saint-Martin-des-Entrées
Village
Photo: ChBougui, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint-Martin-des-Entrées is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
Bayeux
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy, France, Europe
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Latitude
49.2765° or 49° 16′ 35″ northLongitude
-0.7025° or 0° 42′ 9″ westPopulation
12,800Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)United Nations Location Code
FR BYXOpen location code
8CXX77GX+H2OpenStreetMap ID
node 409700749OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bayeux” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bayeux”
- Albanian: “Bayeux”
- Arabic: “بايو”
- Arabic: “بياوش”
- Aragonese: “Bayeux”
- Armenian: “Բայե”
- Armenian: “Բայո”
- Arpitan: “Bayeux”
- Asturian: “Bayeux”
- Bambara: “Bayeux”
- Basque: “Bayeux”
- Bavarian: “Bayeux”
- Belarusian: “Баё”
- Bengali: “বাইয়ো”
- Bishnupriya: “বায়েউক্স”
- Breton: “Bayeux”
- Bulgarian: “Байо”
- Cajun French: “Bayeux”
- Catalan: “Bayeux”
- Cebuano: “Bayeux”
- Chechen: “Байоь”
- Chinese: “Bayeux”
- Chinese: “巴約”
- Chinese: “巴约”
- Corsican: “Bayeux”
- Croatian: “Bayeux”
- Czech: “Bayeux”
- Danish: “Bayeux”
- Dutch: “Bayeux (Frankrijk)”
- Dutch: “Bayeux”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بايو”
- Esperanto: “Bayeux”
- Estonian: “Bayeux”
- Faroese: “Bayeux”
- Finnish: “Bayeux”
- French: “Bayeux”
- Friulian: “Bayeux”
- Galician: “Bayeux”
- German: “Bayeux”
- Greek: “Μπαγιέ”
- Hebrew: “באייה”
- Hungarian: “Bayeux”
- Icelandic: “Bayeux”
- Ido: “Bayeux”
- Indonesian: “Bayeux”
- Interlingua: “Bayeux”
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- Irish: “Bayeux”
- Italian: “Bayeux”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Bayeux”
- Japanese: “バイユー”
- Javanese: “Bayeux”
- Kabyle: “Bayeux”
- Kalaallisut: “Bayeux”
- Kongo: “Bayeux”
- Korean: “바이외”
- Kurdish: “Bayeux”
- Ladin: “Bayeux”
- Latin: “Augustodurum”
- Latin: “Baiocae”
- Latin: “Baiocassium Civitas”
- Latin: “Baiocassium”
- Latin: “Bajocae”
- Latin: “Bajocassium Civitas”
- Latin: “Bajocassium”
- Latvian: “Baijē”
- Latvian: “Bajē”
- Latvian: “Bajo”
- Ligurian: “Bayeux”
- Limburgan: “Bayeux”
- Lithuanian: “Bayeux”
- Low German: “Bayeux”
- Luxembourgish: “Bayeux”
- Macedonian: “Баје”
- Mainfränkisch: “Bayeux”
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- Malay: “Bayeux”
- Mazanderani: “بایوژ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bayeux”
- Minangkabau: “Bayeux”
- Narom: “Bayeux”
- Neapolitan: “Bayeux”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bayeux”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bayeux”
- Norwegian: “Bayeux”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bayeux”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Baius”
- Pampanga: “Bayeux”
- Papiamento: “Bayeux”
- Persian: “بایو، فرانسه”
- Picard: “Bayeux”
- Piemontese: “Bayeux”
- Polish: “Bayeux”
- Portuguese: “Bayeux”
- Prussian: “Bayeux”
- Romagnol: “Bayeux”
- Romanian: “Bayeux”
- Romansh: “Bayeux”
- Russian: “Байё”
- Sardinian: “Bayeux”
- Scots: “Bayeux”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bayeux”
- Serbian: “Baje”
- Serbian: “Bayeux”
- Serbian: “Баје”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Baje”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bayeux”
- Sicilian: “Bayeux”
- Slovak: “Bayeux”
- Slovenian: “Bayeux”
- Spanish: “Bayeux”
- Swahili: “Bayeux”
- Swedish: “Bayeux”
- Swiss German: “Bayeux”
- Tatar: “Байё”
- Turkish: “Bayeux”
- Ukrainian: “Байо”
- Urdu: “بایو، فرانس”
- Uzbek: “Bayeux”
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- Walloon: “Bayeux”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bayeux”
- Welsh: “Bayeux”
- Western Frisian: “Bayeux”
- Wolof: “Bayeux”
- Wu Chinese: “巴约”
- Yue Chinese: “Bayeux”
- Zulu: “Bayeux”
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