Normandy
Calvados
Arrondissement of Caen

Falaise

Falaise is a town on the Ante River in the department of , 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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  • Type: Town with 7,780 residents
  • Description: commune in Calvados, France
  • Also known as: “14258” and “Falaise, Calvados”
  • Postal code: 14700

Places of Interest

Highlights include Château de Falaise and Château de la Fresnaye.

Photo: Ollamh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a castle from the 12th–13th century, located in the south of the commune of Falaise in the département of , in the region of Normandy, France.

Castle
Photo: Roi.dagobert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a castle.

Square
Photo: Roi.dagobert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a square.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Versainville and Eraines.

Village
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is a commune in the department in the region in northwestern .

Village
Photo: Pimprenel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a commune in the department in the region in northwestern .

Village
Photo: Ikmo-ned, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a commune in the department in the region in northwestern .

Falaise

Latitude
48.8965° or 48° 53′ 47″ north
Longitude
-0.1999° or 0° 11′ 60″ west
Population
7,780
Elevation
144 metres (472 feet)
Open location code
8CWXVRW2+H2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 393888094
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6453668
Wiki­data ID
Q193306
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Falaise” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Falaise”
  • Arabic: “فاليز”
  • Aragonese: “Falaise”
  • Armenian: “Ֆալեզ”
  • Arpitan: “Falaise”
  • Asturian: “Falaise”
  • Azerbaijani: “Falez”
  • Bambara: “Falaise”
  • Bashkir: “Фалез”
  • Basque: “Falaise”
  • Bavarian: “Falaise”
  • Belarusian: “Фалез”
  • Bengali: “ফালেজ”
  • Breton: “Falaise”
  • Bulgarian: “Фалез”
  • Cajun French: “Falaise”
  • Catalan: “Falaise”
  • Cebuano: “Falaise, Calvados”
  • Cebuano: “Falaise”
  • Chechen: “Фалез”
  • Chinese: “Falaise, Calvados”
  • Chinese: “Falaise”
  • Chinese: “法莱斯”
  • Chinese: “法萊斯”
  • Corsican: “Falaise”
  • Croatian: “Falaise”
  • Czech: “Falaise”
  • Danish: “Falaise”
  • Dutch: “Falaise (Calvados)”
  • Dutch: “Falaise”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فاليز”
  • Esperanto: “Falaise”
  • Estonian: “Falaise”
  • Faroese: “Falaise”
  • Finnish: “Falaise”
  • French: “Falaise”
  • Friulian: “Falaise”
  • Galician: “Falaise, Calvados”
  • Galician: “Falaise”
  • German: “Falaise”
  • Greek: “Φαλαίζ”
  • Hebrew: “טירת פאלז”
  • Hungarian: “Falaise”
  • Icelandic: “Falaise”
  • Ido: “Falaise”
  • Indonesian: “Falaise, Calvados”
  • Indonesian: “Falaise”
  • Interlingua: “Falaise”
  • Interlingue: “Falaise”
  • Irish: “Falaise”
  • Italian: “Falaise”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Falaise”
  • Japanese: “ファレーズ”
  • Kabyle: “Falaise”
  • Kalaallisut: “Falaise”
  • Kazakh: “Фалез”
  • Kongo: “Falaise”
  • Korean: “팔레즈”
  • Kurdish: “Falaise, Calvados”
  • Kurdish: “Falaise”
  • Ladin: “Falaise”
  • Latin: “Falaise”
  • Latin: “Falesia”
  • Latvian: “Falaise”
  • Ligurian: “Falaise”
  • Limburgan: “Falaise”
  • Lithuanian: “Falaise”
  • Low German: “Falaise”
  • Luxembourgish: “Falaise”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Falaise”
  • Malagasy: “Falaise”
  • Malay: “Falaise, Calvados”
  • Malay: “Falaise”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Falaise”
  • Minangkabau: “Falaise”
  • Narom: “Falaise”
  • Neapolitan: “Falaise”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Falaise”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Falaise”
  • Norwegian: “Falaise”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Falaise”
  • Papiamento: “Falaise”
  • Persian: “فالز، کالوادس”
  • Picard: “Falaise”
  • Piemontese: “Falaise”
  • Polish: “Falaise”
  • Portuguese: “Falaise”
  • Prussian: “Falaise”
  • Romagnol: “Falaise”
  • Romanian: “Falaise, Calvados”
  • Romanian: “Falaise”
  • Romansh: “Falaise”
  • Russian: “Фалез”
  • Sardinian: “Falaise”
  • Scots: “Falaise”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Falaise”
  • Serbian: “Falaise”
  • Serbian: “Falez”
  • Serbian: “Фалез”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Falaise”
  • Sicilian: “Falaise”
  • Silesian: “Falaise”
  • Slovak: “Falaise”
  • Slovenian: “Falaise, Calvados”
  • Slovenian: “Falaise”
  • Spanish: “Falaise”
  • Swahili: “Falaise”
  • Swedish: “Falaise, Calvados”
  • Swedish: “Falaise”
  • Swiss German: “Falaise”
  • Tamil: “ஃபலேசு”
  • Tamil: “ஃபலேஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Фалез”
  • Turkish: “Falaise”
  • Ukrainian: “Фалез”
  • Urdu: “فالز، کالوادس”
  • Uzbek: “Falaise”
  • Venetian: “Falaise”
  • Vietnamese: “Falaise, Calvados”
  • Vietnamese: “Falaise”
  • Vlaams: “Falaise”
  • Volapük: “Falaise”
  • Walloon: “Falaise”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Falaise, Calvados”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Falaise”
  • Welsh: “Falaise”
  • Western Frisian: “Falaise”
  • Wolof: “Falaise”
  • Yue Chinese: “Falaise”
  • Zulu: “Falaise”
  • “Falaise”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Falaise”. Photo: Viault, CC BY-SA 3.0.