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Communauté De Communes Cœur Côte Fleurie
Communauté de Communes Cœur Côte Fleurie is the intercommunal structure centered on the town of Deauville. It is located in the Calvados department in Normandy, northwestern France. It was created in 1974 as the district of Trouville-Deauville, which was converted into a communauté de communes in 2002, and its seat is in Deauville.CC Coeur Côte Fleurie BANATIC, accessed 9 January 2025. Its area is 118.2 square kilometers. As of 2021, its population was 20,632 people, with 3,565 people living in Deauville proper.Comparateur de territoires INSEE. Retrieved 9 January 2025. ...
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Deauville
Deauville () is a communes of France, commune in the Calvados (department), Calvados department, Normandy (administrative region), Normandy, northwestern France. Major attractions include its port, harbour, Race track, race course, marinas, conference centre, villas, Grand Casino, and hotels. The first Deauville Asian Film Festival took place in 1999. As the closest seaside resort to Paris, Deauville is one of the most notable seaside resorts in France. The city and its region of the ''Côte Fleurie'' (''Flowery Coast'') have long been home to the French upper class's seaside houses and is often referred to as the ''Parisian riviera''. Since the 19th century, the town of Deauville has been a fashionable holiday resort for the international upper class. In France, it is perhaps most well-known for its role in Proust's ''In Search of Lost Time''. History The history of Deauville can be traced back to 1060, when seigneur Hubert du Mont-Canisy controlled the land, which was previou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Pierre-Azif
Saint-Pierre-Azif () is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. Population Personality * the doctor Louis Lépecq de La Clôture retired to his family home and died there on 5 November 1804. See also *Communes of the Calvados department The following is a list of the 526 Communes of France, communes of the Calvados (department), Calvados Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities ... References Mentioned by author George Sand in her children's story "The Wings of Courage" (1872) as the home of the story's hero, Clopinet. {{DEFAULTSORT:Saintpierreazif Communes of Calvados (department) Calvados communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villerville
Villerville () is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. The ''commune'' is located towards the eastern end of the coastline called the Côte Fleurie (Flowery Coast). In entertainment In the summer of 1923 the American art collector and patron Peggy Guggenheim rented a villa in the village and entertained, amongst others, the American photographer Man Ray and his partner, the French model, singer, artist and 'Queen of Montparnasse' Alice Prin, also known as 'Kiki'. According the recently published biography of Kiki, Peggy would encourage her guests to paint in the villa's garden, and Peggy "picked up a brush for the first and last time of her life." Composer Francis Bayer (1938–2004) was born in Villerville. The film A Monkey in Winter ''Un singe en hiver'', starring Jean Gabin and Jean-Paul Belmondo, was shot there in 1962. Villerville celebrated the film's 50th anniversary with special events from 30 June to 20 October 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villers-sur-Mer
Villers-sur-Mer () is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy, northwestern France, with a population of 2,644 as of 2017. Geography The commune is located on the French coast of the English Channel, on the Côte Fleurie, between Deauville and Houlgate, approximately 200 km from Paris. It is the northernmost French commune through which falls the Prime meridian. The latter is represented on the seafront promenade with a blue mark on the ground and on the parapet. This mark is positioned 32 metres west of the actual meridian in use today, the IERS Reference Meridian. Paleontology Numerous fossils of vertebrates were found in the Jurassic (Upper Callovian) Vaches-Noires cliffs in Villers-sur-Mer. Remains include marine reptiles, in particular teleosaurids ('' Steneosaurus heberti'') and metriorhynchids, coelacanths, a huge suspension-feeding fish ''Leedsichthys'' and dinosaurs. A 2.5 m-long metriorhynchid skeleton, assigned to ''Metriorhynchus'' cf. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vauville, Calvados
Vauville () is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. Population See also *Communes of the Calvados department The following is a list of the 526 Communes of France, communes of the Calvados (department), Calvados Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities ... References Communes of Calvados (department) Calvados communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Lisieux-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trouville-sur-Mer
Trouville-sur-Mer (, literally ''Trouville on Sea''), commonly referred to as Trouville, is a city of 4,603 inhabitants in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. Trouville-sur-Mer borders Deauville across the River Touques. This fishing-village on the English Channel became a popular tourist attraction (beach-resort and holiday-destination) in Normandy from the 19th century. Its long sandy beach earned then the nickname of "queen of the beaches" ("Reine des plages") or "most beautiful beach in the world". The name of Trouville is frequently associated with the names of the numerous painters that visited it and painted there, especially during the second part of the XIXth century: Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, ; ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his ..., ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tourgéville
Tourgéville () is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. The Deauville-Clairefontaine Racecourse is located on the territory of the commune. Population See also * Côte Fleurie *Communes of the Calvados department The following is a list of the 526 Communes of France, communes of the Calvados (department), Calvados Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities ...Tourgeville, diary of a small Normandy village - news clippings from the 19th and 20th century References Communes of Calvados (department) Calvados communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Lisieux-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touques, Calvados
Touques () is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. It is situated on the river Touques, 3 km southeast of the sea resort Deauville. History * Eliezer (ben Solomon) of Touques was a French tosafist, who lived at Touques in the second half of the thirteenth century. He abridged the tosafot of Samson of Sens, Samuel of Évreux, and many others, and added thereto marginal notes of his own, entitled "Gilyon Tosafot," or "Tosafot Gillayon". *On 1 August 1417 Henry V of England, landed there. *On 7 March 2021 Olivier Dassault crash landed on board a helicopter there. Population International relations Touques is twinned with: * Sankt Andreasberg (Germany) * Strathspey, Scotland See also *Communes of the Calvados department The following is a list of the 526 Communes of France, communes of the Calvados (department), Calvados Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Gatien-des-Bois
Saint-Gatien-des-Bois () is a commune in the Calvados in the Normandy region in northwestern France. Climate Population See also *Communes of the Calvados department The following is a list of the 526 Communes of France, communes of the Calvados (department), Calvados Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities ... References Communes of Calvados (department) Calvados communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Lisieux-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvados Department
Calvados (, , ) is a department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. It takes its name from a cluster of rocks off the Normandy coast. In 2019, it had a population of 694,905.Populations légales 2019: 14 Calvados , INSEE History Calvados is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790, in application of the law of 22 December 1789. It had been part of the former province of . The name "Orne-Infér ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Arnoult, Calvados
Saint-Arnoult () is a commune in the Calvados department, region of Normandy, northwestern France. Population See also *Communes of the Calvados department The following is a list of the 526 Communes of France, communes of the Calvados (department), Calvados Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities ... References Communes of Calvados (department) Calvados communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Lisieux-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blonville-sur-Mer
Blonville-sur-Mer (, literally ''Blonville on Sea'') is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. It is a seaside resort on the Côte Fleurie with a long sandy beach. Transport Blonville-sur-Mer is on the railway line from Deauville to Dives-sur-Mer. The station building (Blonville-Bénerville) is no longer open but train services operate year-round at weekends as well as on week days during the summer season. Population Notable people linked to the commune Deaths * Jean Baud (1919-2012), founder of Leader Price. Others * Robert Gangnat, representative of the society of dramatic authors. It was at his home that the publisher Gaston Gallimard first met Marcel Proust, in August 1908. * Vincent Bolloré, French businessman, bought a villa by the sea in 2008. * The writer and member of the French Resistance René Hardy (1911-1987) lived here from 1974 to 1982 in a villa rented to a professor of medicine.Bernard Gourbin, ''Les Inco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
