Saint-Desir travel guide
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Visit Saint-Desir: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Saint-Desir is situated in the Calvados department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 42 km from Caen, the department capital. (General information: Saint-Desir is 159 km from Paris and 233 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Lisieux at 1 km from Saint-Desir
Popular places to visit near Saint-Desir: these include Lisieux at 1 km and Cambremer at 12 km.
Boutemont is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 5km and Beuvron is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 19km. 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 Saint-Desir, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Saint-Desir
See France This Way travel guides for Calvados and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Saint-Desir.
Note that all distances from Saint-Desir shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Saint-Desir holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Saint-Desir (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 Saint-Desir and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Boutemont (5km) : Jardins du château de Vendeuvre (27km) : Arboretum d'Harcourt (42km) : Jardins du château du Champ de Bataille (47km) :
- National Monuments: Abbey of Bec-Hellouin (38km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Beuvron (19km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye de Caen (Caen) (42km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Touques (24km) : Cabourg (29km) : Honfleur (31km) : Pont-Audemer (32km) : Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon (47km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Orbec (19km) : Le Havre (40km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Argentan (47km) :
Map of places to visit near Saint-Desir & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Saint-Désir
Canton: Lisieux 3e Canton
Arrondissement: Lisieux
Department: Calvados
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 14100
Distance to Saint-Desir
from Caen: 42 km
from Paris: 159 km
from Calais: 233 km
from Nice: 811 km
from Bordeaux: 482 km
from Strasbourg: 555 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 15 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Saint-Desir): Beuvillers, Fauguernon, Glos, Hermival-les-Vaux, La Boissiere, Le Mesnil-Eudes, Le Mesnil-Guillaume, Le Pre-d'Auge, Lisieux, Manerbe, Ouilly-le-Vicomte, Rocques, 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 Saint-Desir from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Saint-Desir