Le Detroit travel guide
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Visit Le Detroit: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Le Detroit is situated in the Calvados department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 35 km from Caen, the department capital. (General information: Le Detroit is 197 km from Paris and 280 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Falaise at 12 km from Le Detroit
Popular places to visit near Le Detroit: these include Falaise at 12 km and Argentan at 28 km.
Jardins du château de Vendeuvre is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 24km and Argentan is a listed 'recommended detour' at 28km. 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 Le Detroit, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Le Detroit
See France This Way travel guides for Calvados and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Le Detroit.
Note that all distances from Le Detroit shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Le Detroit holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Le Detroit (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 Le Detroit and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardins du château de Vendeuvre (24km) : Sassy (34km) : Jardins du château de Brécy (48km) :
- National Monuments: Carrouges Chateau (37km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Beuvron (42km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye de Caen (Caen) (35km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre (Rucqueville) (47km) : Prieuré (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (47km) : Prieuré de Saint Gabriel Brécy (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (48km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Saint-Fraimbault (49km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Argentan (28km) : Domfront (37km) :
Map of places to visit near Le Detroit & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Détroit
Canton: Falaise-Nord
Arrondissement: Caen
Department: Calvados
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 14690
Distance to Le Detroit
from Caen: 35 km
from Paris: 197 km
from Calais: 280 km
from Nice: 819 km
from Bordeaux: 448 km
from Strasbourg: 594 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 19 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Le Detroit): Breel, Cossesseville, Fourneaux-le-Val, La Pommeraye, Le Mesnil-Villement, Leffard, Les IsLes Bardel, Les Loges-Saulces, Martigny-sur-l'Ante, Menil-Hermei, Menil-Hubert-sur-Orne, Menil-Vin, Pierrefitte-en-Cinglais, Pierrepont, Pont-d'Ouilly, Rapilly, Saint-Philbert-sur-Orne, Segrie-Fontaine and Treprel.
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 Le Detroit from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Le Detroit