La Villette travel guide
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Visit La Villette: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: La Villette is situated in the Calvados department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 33 km from Caen, the department capital. (General information: La Villette is 212 km from Paris and 284 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Falaise at 26 km from La Villette
Popular places to visit near La Villette: these include Falaise at 26 km and Vire at 27 km.
Abbaye de Caen (Caen) is a listed 'religious monument' at 33km and Jardins du château de Vendeuvre is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 35km. 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 La Villette, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to La Villette
See France This Way travel guides for Calvados and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of La Villette.
Note that all distances from La Villette shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
La Villette holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to La Villette (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 La Villette and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardins du château de Vendeuvre (35km) : Plantbessin (37km) : Jardins du château de Brécy (41km) : Sassy (49km) :
- National Monuments: Carrouges Chateau (49km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Beuvron (47km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye de Caen (Caen) (33km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre (Rucqueville) (38km) : Prieuré (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (38km) : Prieuré de Saint Gabriel Brécy (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (40km) : Cathédrale Notre Dame (Bayeux) (42km) : Abbaye de Cerisy-la-Forêt (Cerisy-la-Foret) (42km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Domjean (37km) : Saint-Fraimbault (49km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Domfront (36km) : Argentan (43km) :
Map of places to visit near La Villette & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Villette
Canton: Thury-Harcourt
Arrondissement: Caen
Department: Calvados
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 14570
Distance to La Villette
from Caen: 33 km
from Paris: 212 km
from Calais: 284 km
from Nice: 833 km
from Bordeaux: 453 km
from Strasbourg: 609 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 14 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of La Villette): Cauville, Clecy, Culey-le-Patry, La Chapelle-Engerbold, Le Plessis-Grimoult, Le Vey, Perigny, Pontecoulant, Proussy, Saint-Denis-de-Mere, Saint-Lambert, Saint-Martin-de-Sallen, Saint-Pierre-la-Vieille and Saint-Remy.
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 La Villette from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez La Villette