Cairon travel guide
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Visit Cairon: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Cairon is situated in the Calvados department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 10 km from Caen, the department capital. (General information: Cairon is 209 km from Paris and 251 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Creully at 8 km from Cairon
Popular places to visit near Cairon: these include Creully at 8 km and Caen at 9 km.
Prieuré de Saint Gabriel Brécy (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) is a listed 'religious monument' at 9km and Abbaye de Caen (Caen) is a listed 'religious monument' at 9km. 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 Cairon, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Cairon
See France This Way travel guides for Calvados and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Cairon.
Note that all distances from Cairon shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Cairon holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Cairon (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 Cairon and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardins du château de Brécy (9km) : Plantbessin (25km) : Jardins du château de Vendeuvre (39km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Beuvron (30km) :
- Religious monuments: Prieuré de Saint Gabriel Brécy (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (9km) : Abbaye de Caen (Caen) (9km) : Prieuré (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (10km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre (Rucqueville) (10km) : Cathédrale Notre Dame (Bayeux) (19km) : Abbaye de Cerisy-la-Forêt (Cerisy-la-Foret) (35km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Cabourg (25km) : Touques (42km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Le Havre (49km) :
Map of places to visit near Cairon & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Cairon
Canton: Creully
Arrondissement: Caen
Department: Calvados
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 14610
Distance to Cairon
from Caen: 10 km
from Paris: 209 km
from Calais: 251 km
from Nice: 853 km
from Bordeaux: 490 km
from Strasbourg: 603 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 22 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Cairon): Amblie, Anguerny, Anisy, Authie, Basly, Beny-sur-Mer, Cambes-en-Plaine, Colomby-sur-Thaon, Cully, Epron, Fontaine-Henry, Lantheuil, Lasson, Le Fresne-Camilly, Mathieu, Rosel, Rots, Saint-Contest, Secqueville-en-Bessin, Thaon, Tierceville and Villons-les-Buissons.
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 Cairon from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Cairon