Pontecoulant travel guide
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Visit Pontecoulant: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Pontecoulant is situated in the Calvados department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 38 km from Caen, the department capital. (General information: Pontecoulant is 215 km from Paris and 289 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Vire at 22 km from Pontecoulant
Popular places to visit near Pontecoulant: these include Vire at 22 km and Falaise at 29 km.
Domfront is a listed 'recommended detour' at 32km and Domjean is a listed 'ville fleurie 4*' at 34km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Pontecoulant, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Pontecoulant
See France This Way travel guides for Calvados and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Pontecoulant.
Note that all distances from Pontecoulant shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Pontecoulant holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Pontecoulant (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 Pontecoulant and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardins du château de Vendeuvre (39km) : Plantbessin (39km) : Jardins du château de Brécy (45km) :
- National Monuments: Carrouges Chateau (48km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye de Caen (Caen) (38km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre (Rucqueville) (42km) : Prieuré (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (42km) : Abbaye de Cerisy-la-Forêt (Cerisy-la-Foret) (43km) : Prieuré de Saint Gabriel Brécy (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (44km) : Cathédrale Notre Dame (Bayeux) (45km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Domjean (34km) : Saint-Fraimbault (44km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Domfront (32km) : Argentan (44km) :
Map of places to visit near Pontecoulant & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Pontécoulant
Canton: Condé-sur-Noireau
Arrondissement: Vire
Department: Calvados
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 14110
Distance to Pontecoulant
from Caen: 38 km
from Paris: 215 km
from Calais: 289 km
from Nice: 833 km
from Bordeaux: 449 km
from Strasbourg: 612 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 11 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Pontecoulant): Conde-sur-Noireau, La Chapelle-Engerbold, La Villette, Lenault, Perigny, Proussy, Saint-Denis-de-Mere, Saint-Germain-du-Crioult, Saint-Pierre-du-Regard, Saint-Pierre-la-Vieille and Saint-Vigor-Des-Mezerets.
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 Pontecoulant from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Pontecoulant