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Calvados

Calvados is a department of famous for its apple liqueur. Calvados is one of the most visited areas in France because of its seaside resorts which are among the most prestigious in France with their luxurious hotels, casinos, green countryside, manors, castles, the quiet, the chalk cliffs, the typical Norman houses, the history of William the Conqueror, Caen, Bayeux, and Lisieux.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Caen and Lisieux.

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is the capital and largest city of the Calvados department in . Situated a few miles from the coast, the landing beaches, the bustling resorts of Deauville and Cabourg, as well as Norman Switzerland and the Pays d'Auge, is often considered the archetype of Normandy.

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is a town of 20,000 people in Calvados. Its basilica attracts many pilgrims each year because of its association with Saint Thérèse of .

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is a small town in northern in Calvados department. is best known for the remarkable Tapestry that chronicles in visual form the conquest of by William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, in 1066.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Honfleur and Deauville.

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is a town surrounding a beautiful little 17th-century harbour in Calvados, . It is still active as a fishing port and marina. The town has preserved many historic and traditional buildings and houses some interesting museums, churches and monuments.

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is a fashionable seaside resort in the Calvados département of the region of in .

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is a town on the Ante River in the department of Calvados, south of the regional centre . It is famous as the birthplace of William the Conqueror and as the scene of remarkably fierce fighting in August 1944 during the Battle of Normandy, after the D-Day landings on the coast north of Caen.

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is a seaside village near in Calvados. It's best known for its pivotal role among the D-Day beaches, the Allied landings of 6 June 1944.

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is a town and a former commune in the Calvados department in the region in northwestern . On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of .

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is a popular tourist attraction and fishing village in Calvados bordering .

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is in Calvados department on the coast of at the eastern end of the area of the D-Day beaches.

Calvados

Population
705,000
Wiki­data ID
Q3249
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Calvados” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Calvados”
  • Albanian: “Calvados”
  • Arabic: “كالفادو (إقليم فرنسي)”
  • Arabic: “كالفادوس”
  • Arabic: “كلفادس”
  • Arabic: “كلفادوس”
  • Aragonese: “Calvados”
  • Armenian: “Կալվադոս”
  • Arpitan: “Calvados”
  • Arpitan: “Carvadous”
  • Asturian: “Calvados”
  • Asturian: “departamentu de Calvados”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kalvados”
  • Basque: “Calvados”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Кальвадос”
  • Belarusian: “Кальвадос (дэпартамент)”
  • Belarusian: “Кальвадос (дэпартамэнт)”
  • Belarusian: “Кальвадос”
  • Bengali: “ক্যাালভাডোস”
  • Breton: “Calvados”
  • Bulgarian: “Калвадос”
  • Catalan: “Calvados”
  • Cebuano: “Calvados”
  • Chechen: “Кальвадос (департамент)”
  • Chechen: “Кальвадос”
  • Chinese: “Calvados”
  • Chinese: “卡尔瓦多斯省”
  • Chinese: “卡爾瓦多斯省”
  • Chinese: “卡爾華多斯”
  • Chuvash: “Кальвадос”
  • Czech: “Calvados”
  • Dagbani: “Calvados”
  • Danish: “Calvados”
  • Dutch: “Calvados (departement)”
  • Dutch: “Calvados”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كالڤادوس (اداره)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كالڤادوس”
  • Esperanto: “Calvados”
  • Estonian: “Calvadosi departemang”
  • Finnish: “Calvados”
  • French: “Calvados”
  • French: “département du Calvados”
  • Galician: “Calvados”
  • Georgian: “კალვადოსი”
  • Georgian: “კალვადოსის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Calvados”
  • German: “Département Calvados”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Calvados”
  • Greek: “Καλβαντός”
  • Gujarati: “કેલ્વાડોસ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Calvados-sén”
  • Hebrew: “קלבדוס”
  • Hindi: “सेल्वाडोस”
  • Hungarian: “Calvados”
  • Indonesian: “Calvados”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento Calvados”
  • Irish: “Calvados”
  • Italian: “Calvados”
  • Japanese: “カルヴァドス県”
  • Javanese: “Calvados”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಲ್ವಾಡೋಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Кальвадос”
  • Kongo: “Calvados”
  • Korean: “칼바도스주”
  • Ladin: “Calvados”
  • Ladino: “Calvados”
  • Latin: “Calva Dorsa”
  • Latin: “Rupes Calvadosia”
  • Latvian: “Kalvadosa”
  • Limburgan: “Calvados”
  • Lithuanian: “Kalvadosas”
  • Lombard: “Calvados”
  • Low German: “Calvados”
  • Luxembourgish: “Departement Calvados”
  • Macedonian: “Калвадос”
  • Malay: “Calvados”
  • Malayalam: “കാൽവഡോസ്”
  • Marathi: “काल्व्हादोस”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Calvados”
  • Narom: “Calvados”
  • Northern Frisian: “Calvados (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Calvados”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Calvados (departement)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Calvados”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Departementet Calvados”
  • Norwegian: “Calvados”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Calvadòs”
  • Ossetian: “Кальвадос (департамент)”
  • Ossetian: “Кальвадос”
  • Pampanga: “Calvados”
  • Persian: “کالوادوس”
  • Piemontese: “Calvados”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment dël Calvados”
  • Polish: “Calvados”
  • Portuguese: “Calvados”
  • Romanian: “Calvados”
  • Romanian: “departamentul Calvados”
  • Russian: “Кальвадос”
  • Scots: “Calvados”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Calvados”
  • Serbian: “Калвадос”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Calvados”
  • Sinhala: “කල්වඩෝස්”
  • Slovak: “Calvados”
  • Slovenian: “Calvados”
  • Spanish: “Calvados”
  • Swahili: “Calvados”
  • Swedish: “Calvados”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Калвадос”
  • Tamil: “சால்வடோஸ்”
  • Telugu: “కాల్వాడోస్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดกาลวาโดส”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Calvados”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Département Calvados”
  • Turkish: “Calvados”
  • Ukrainian: “Кальвадос”
  • Urdu: “کالوادوس”
  • Uzbek: “Calvados (departament)”
  • Uzbek: “Calvados”
  • Venetian: “Calvados”
  • Vietnamese: “Calvados”
  • Vlaams: “Calvados”
  • Volapük: “Calvados”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Calvados”
  • Welsh: “Calvados”
  • Western Frisian: “Calvados”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع کالوادوس”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡尔瓦多斯省”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡爾華多斯”

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