Bretteville-sur-Laize travel guide
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Visit Bretteville-sur-Laize: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Bretteville-sur-Laize is situated in the Calvados department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 15 km from Caen, the department capital. (General information: Bretteville-sur-Laize is 196 km from Paris and 263 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Caen at 16 km from Bretteville-sur-Laize
Popular places to visit near Bretteville-sur-Laize: these include Caen at 16 km and Falaise at 19 km.
Abbaye de Caen (Caen) is a listed 'religious monument' at 16km and Jardins du château de Vendeuvre is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 19km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Photos taken within 10 km
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Bretteville-sur-Laize, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Bretteville-sur-Laize
See France This Way travel guides for Calvados and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Bretteville-sur-Laize.
Note that all distances from Bretteville-sur-Laize shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Bretteville-sur-Laize holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Bretteville-sur-Laize (from booking.com and with a great selection of hotels and a best price promise).
For a longer visit popular choices include apartments and holiday rentals. For these we suggest two popular options: holiday villages in Normandy and Calvados gites and villas
Tourist attractions nearby
Below we show places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Bretteville-sur-Laize and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardins du château de Vendeuvre (19km) : Jardins du château de Brécy (31km) : Plantbessin (39km) : Boutemont (43km) : Sassy (49km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Beuvron (26km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye de Caen (Caen) (16km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre (Rucqueville) (30km) : Prieuré (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (30km) : Prieuré de Saint Gabriel Brécy (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (31km) : Cathédrale Notre Dame (Bayeux) (38km) : Abbaye de Cerisy-la-Forêt (Cerisy-la-Foret) (47km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Cabourg (31km) : Touques (46km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Argentan (40km) :
Map of places to visit near Bretteville-sur-Laize & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Bretteville-sur-Laize
Canton: Bretteville-sur-Laize
Arrondissement: Caen
Department: Calvados
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 14680
Distance to Bretteville-sur-Laize
from Caen: 15 km
from Paris: 196 km
from Calais: 263 km
from Nice: 831 km
from Bordeaux: 468 km
from Strasbourg: 593 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 18 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Bretteville-sur-Laize): Barbery, Boulon, Bretteville-le-Rabet, Cauvicourt, Cintheaux, Clinchamps-sur-Orne, Fontenay-le-Marmion, Fresney-le-Puceux, Fresney-le-Vieux, Gouvix, Grainville-Langannerie, Laize-la-Ville, May-sur-Orne, Moulines, Rocquancourt, Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil, Saint-Germain-le-Vasson and Urville.
Getting here
Calvados is in the north of France. Most visitors arrive by car typically by ferry into Cherbourg or Caen on the Normandy coast For driving distances to Bretteville-sur-Laize from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Bretteville-sur-Laize