Lion-sur-Mer travel guide
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Visit Lion-sur-Mer: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Lion-sur-Mer is situated in the Calvados department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 14 km from Caen, the department capital. (General information: Lion-sur-Mer is 201 km from Paris and 240 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Caen at 14 km from Lion-sur-Mer
Popular places to visit near Lion-sur-Mer: these include Caen at 14 km and Cabourg at 15 km.
Abbaye de Caen (Caen) is a listed 'religious monument' at 13km and Cabourg is a listed 'ville fleurie 4*' at 15km. 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 Lion-sur-Mer, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Lion-sur-Mer
See France This Way travel guides for Calvados and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Lion-sur-Mer.
Note that all distances from Lion-sur-Mer shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Lion-sur-Mer holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Lion-sur-Mer (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 Lion-sur-Mer and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardins du château de Brécy (18km) : Plantbessin (36km) : Jardins du château de Vendeuvre (39km) : Boutemont (42km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Beuvron (24km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye de Caen (Caen) (13km) : Prieuré de Saint Gabriel Brécy (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (18km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre (Rucqueville) (20km) : Prieuré (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (20km) : Cathédrale Notre Dame (Bayeux) (28km) : Abbaye de Cerisy-la-Forêt (Cerisy-la-Foret) (46km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Cabourg (15km) : Touques (31km) : Honfleur (42km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Le Havre (37km) :
Map of places to visit near Lion-sur-Mer & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Lion-sur-Mer
Canton: Douvres-la-Délivrande
Arrondissement: Caen
Department: Calvados
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 14780
Distance to Lion-sur-Mer
from Caen: 14 km
from Paris: 201 km
from Calais: 240 km
from Nice: 851 km
from Bordeaux: 497 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 13 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Lion-sur-Mer): Anisy, Colleville-Montgomery, Cresserons, Douvres-la-Delivrande, Hermanville-sur-Mer, Langrune-sur-Mer, Luc-sur-Mer, Mathieu, Ouistreham, Periers-sur-le-Dan, Plumetot, Saint-Aubin-d'Arquenay and Saint-Aubin-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 Lion-sur-Mer from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Lion-sur-Mer