Mouen travel guide
Visit Mouen: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Caen at 9 km from Mouen
Location: Mouen is situated in the Calvados department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 9 km from Caen, the department capital. (General information: Mouen is 209 km from Paris and 261 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Mouen: these include Caen at 9 km and Creully at 16 km. Abbaye de Caen (Caen) is a listed religious monument at 10 km and Villers-Bocage is a listed village d'etape at 14 km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Photos taken within 10 km
Selected places to visit and attractions near Mouen, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Mouen
See France This Way travel guides for Calvados and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Mouen.
Note that all distances from Mouen shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Mouen holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see our hotel search (from a leading hotel agent 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
Markets near Mouen
- Caen: market every Wednesday & Tuesday & Thursday & Sunday & Friday (10km)
- Tilly-sur-Seulles: market every Sunday (11km)
- Mondeville: market every Thursday (12km)
- Herouville-Saint-Clair: market every Wednesday (14km)
- Villers-Bocage: market every Wednesday (14km)
- Aunay-sur-Odon: market every Saturday (18km)
- Thury-Harcourt: market every Tuesday (18km)
- Douvres-la-Delivrande: market every Thursday (18km)
- Courseulles-sur-Mer: market every Tuesday & Friday (21km)
- Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer: market every Thursday (22km)
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 Mouen and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Mouen map below.
Most Beautiful Village Beuvron (32km)
Religious Monument Abbaye de Caen (Caen) (10km); Eglise de Saint Pierre (Rucqueville) (14km); Prieuré (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (14km); Prieuré de Saint Gabriel Brécy (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (16km); Cathédrale Notre Dame (Bayeux) (21km); Abbaye de Cerisy-la-Forêt (Cerisy-la-Foret) (33km)
Remarkable Garden Jardins du château de Brécy (16km); Plantbessin (23km); Jardins du château de Vendeuvre (34km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Bayeux (22km)
Village D'etape Villers-Bocage (14km); Torigni-sur-Vire (38km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Cabourg (31km); Domjean (44km)
Zoo Or Wildlife Park Parc zoologique de Jurques (25km)
Map of places to visit near Mouen & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Mouen
Canton: Tilly-sur-Seulles
Arrondissement: Caen
Department: Calvados
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 14790
Distance to Mouen
from Caen (local prefecture): 9 km
from Paris: 209 km
from Calais: 261 km
from Nice: 847 km
from Bordeaux: 479 km
from Strasbourg: 605 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 22 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Mouen): Avenay, Baron-sur-Odon, Bougy, Bretteville-sur-Odon, Carpiquet, Cheux, Esquay-Notre-Dame, Eterville, Evrecy, Feuguerolles-Bully, Fontaine-Etoupefour, Gavrus, Grainville-sur-Odon, Le Locheur, Le Mesnil-Patry, Maltot, Missy, Mondrainville, Saint-Manvieu-Norrey, Tourville-sur-Odon, Verson and Vieux.
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 Mouen from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Mouen