Formigny travel guide
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Visit Formigny: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Formigny is situated in the Calvados department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 43 km from Caen, the department capital. (General information: Formigny is 243 km from Paris and 266 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Normandy landing beaches at 5 km from Formigny
Popular places to visit near Formigny: these include Normandy landing beaches at 5 km and Bayeux at 16 km.
Abbaye de Cerisy-la-Forêt (Cerisy-la-Foret) is a listed 'religious monument' at 15km and Plantbessin is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 16km. 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 Formigny, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Formigny
See France This Way travel guides for Calvados and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Formigny.
Note that all distances from Formigny shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Formigny holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Formigny (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 Formigny and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Plantbessin (16km) : Jardins du château de Brécy (25km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Barfleur (46km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye de Cerisy-la-Forêt (Cerisy-la-Foret) (15km) : Cathédrale Notre Dame (Bayeux) (16km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre (Rucqueville) (25km) : Prieuré (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (25km) : Prieuré de Saint Gabriel Brécy (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (25km) : Abbaye de Caen (Caen) (43km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Domjean (40km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Valognes (46km) :
Map of places to visit near Formigny & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Formigny
Canton: Trévières
Arrondissement: Bayeux
Department: Calvados
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 14710
Distance to Formigny
from Caen: 43 km
from Paris: 243 km
from Calais: 266 km
from Nice: 884 km
from Bordeaux: 501 km
from Strasbourg: 637 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 20 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Formigny): Aignerville, Asnieres-en-Bessin, Bricqueville, Colleville-sur-Mer, Colombieres, Deux-Jumeaux, Ecrammeville, Englesqueville-la-Percee, Longueville, Louvieres, Mandeville-en-Bessin, Mosles, Normandy landing beaches, Rubercy, Russy, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Saint-Pierre-du-Mont, Surrain, Trevieres and Vierville-sur-Mer.
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 Formigny from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Formigny