Lisieux travel guide
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Visit Lisieux: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Lisieux is situated in the Calvados department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 43 km from Caen, the department capital. (General information: Lisieux is 158 km from Paris and 232 km from the port at Calais).
For a detailed travel guide see Lisieux
Popular places to visit near Lisieux: these include Cambremer at 13 km and Beuvron at 20 km.
Boutemont is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 4km and Orbec is a listed 'town of art and history' at 19km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Tourist classifications for Lisieux: Village in bloom (ville fleurie) 2*;
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Lisieux, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Lisieux
See France This Way travel guides for Calvados and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Lisieux.
Note that all distances from Lisieux shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Lisieux holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Lisieux (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 Lisieux and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Boutemont (4km) : Jardins du château de Vendeuvre (28km) : Arboretum d'Harcourt (41km) : Jardins du château du Champ de Bataille (46km) :
- National Monuments: Abbey of Bec-Hellouin (37km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Beuvron (20km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye de Caen (Caen) (43km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Touques (24km) : Cabourg (30km) : Honfleur (30km) : Pont-Audemer (31km) : Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon (45km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Orbec (19km) : Le Havre (39km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Argentan (48km) :
Map of places to visit near Lisieux & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Lisieux
Canton: Lisieux
Arrondissement: Lisieux
Department: Calvados
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 14100
Distance to Lisieux
from Caen: 43 km
from Paris: 158 km
from Calais: 232 km
from Nice: 810 km
from Bordeaux: 483 km
from Strasbourg: 553 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 16 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Lisieux): Beuvillers, Coquainvilliers, Fauguernon, Glos, Hermival-les-Vaux, Le Mesnil-Eudes, Le Mesnil-Guillaume, Le Pre-d'Auge, Manerbe, Norolles, Ouilly-le-Vicomte, Rocques, Saint-Desir, Saint-Jean-de-Livet, Saint-Martin-de-la-Lieue and Saint-Pierre-Des-Ifs.
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 Lisieux from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Lisieux