Cahan travel guide
Visit Cahan: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Falaise at 19 km from Cahan
Location: Cahan is situated in the Orne department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 62 km from Alencon, the department capital. (General information: Cahan is 204 km from Paris and 285 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Cahan: these include Falaise at 19 km and Vire at 33 km. Parc zoologique de Jurques is a listed zoo or wildlife park at 28 km and Villers-Bocage is a listed village d'etape at 29 km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Photos taken within 10 km
Selected places to visit and attractions near Cahan, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Cahan
See France This Way travel guides for Orne and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Cahan.
Note that all distances from Cahan shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Cahan holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see our hotel search (from a leading hotel agent 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 Orne gites and villas
Markets near Cahan
- Conde-sur-Noireau: market every Thursday (8km)
- Thury-Harcourt: market every Tuesday (14km)
- Flers: market every Wednesday & Saturday (15km)
- Falaise: market every Saturday (18km)
- Briouze: market every Monday (19km)
- Aunay-sur-Odon: market every Saturday (23km)
- Villers-Bocage: market every Wednesday (29km)
- La Ferte-Mace: market every Thursday (31km)
- Vire: market every Friday (32km)
- Argentan: market every Tuesday & Friday (33km)
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 Cahan and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Cahan map below.
Most Beautiful Village Beuvron (47km)
National Monument Carrouges Chateau (39km)
Recommended Detour Domfront (33km); Argentan (34km)
Religious Monument Abbaye de Caen (Caen) (37km); Abbaye de Cerisy-la-Forêt (Cerisy-la-Foret) (52km)
Remarkable Garden Jardins du château de Vendeuvre (30km); Sassy (39km); Plantbessin (46km)
Village D'etape Villers-Bocage (29km); Torigni-sur-Vire (44km)
Zoo Or Wildlife Park Parc zoologique de Jurques (28km)
Map of places to visit near Cahan & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Cahan
Canton: Athis-de-l'Orne
Arrondissement: Argentan
Department: Orne
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 61430
Distance to Cahan
from Alencon (local prefecture): 62 km
from Paris: 204 km
from Calais: 285 km
from Nice: 824 km
from Bordeaux: 447 km
from Strasbourg: 601 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 15 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Cahan): Athis-de-l'Orne, Berjou, Breel, Cossesseville, La Lande-Saint-Simeon, La Pommeraye, Le Bo, Le Mesnil-Villement, Menil-Hubert-sur-Orne, Pierrefitte-en-Cinglais, Pont-d'Ouilly, Saint-Denis-de-Mere, Saint-Philbert-sur-Orne, Sainte-Honorine-la-Chardonne and Segrie-Fontaine.
Getting here
Orne is in the north of France. Most visitors arrive in one of the cross-challen ferry ports with Caen being especially close, typically within an hours drive. For driving distances to Cahan from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Cahan