Thaon travel guide
Visit Thaon: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Creully at 7 km from Thaon
Location: Thaon is situated in the Calvados department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 11 km from Caen, the department capital. (General information: Thaon is 209 km from Paris and 250 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Thaon: these include Creully at 7 km and Caen at 11 km. Prieuré de Saint Gabriel Brécy (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) is a listed religious monument at 8 km and Jardins du château de Brécy is a listed remarkable garden at 8 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 Thaon, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Thaon
See France This Way travel guides for Calvados and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Thaon.
Note that all distances from Thaon shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Thaon 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 Thaon
- Douvres-la-Delivrande: market every Thursday (7km)
- Courseulles-sur-Mer: market every Tuesday & Friday (8km)
- Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer: market every Thursday (9km)
- Caen: market every Wednesday & Tuesday & Thursday & Sunday & Friday (11km)
- Herouville-Saint-Clair: market every Wednesday (12km)
- Mondeville: market every Thursday (14km)
- Ouistreham: market every Wednesday & Saturday - seasonal market only - (15km)
- Ouistreham: market every Thursday & Sunday & Friday (15km)
- Tilly-sur-Seulles: market every Sunday (15km)
- Bayeux: market every Wednesday & Saturday (19km)
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 Thaon and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Thaon map below.
Most Beautiful Village Beuvron (31km)
Religious Monument Prieuré de Saint Gabriel Brécy (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (8km); Eglise de Saint Pierre (Rucqueville) (9km); Prieuré (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (9km); Abbaye de Caen (Caen) (11km); Cathédrale Notre Dame (Bayeux) (18km); Abbaye de Cerisy-la-Forêt (Cerisy-la-Foret) (35km)
Remarkable Garden Jardins du château de Brécy (8km); Plantbessin (25km); Jardins du château de Vendeuvre (41km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Bayeux (19km)
Village D'etape Villers-Bocage (24km); Torigni-sur-Vire (46km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Cabourg (25km)
Zoo Or Wildlife Park Parc zoologique de Jurques (36km)
Map of places to visit near Thaon & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Thaon
Canton: Creully
Arrondissement: Caen
Department: Calvados
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 14610
Distance to Thaon
from Caen (local prefecture): 11 km
from Paris: 209 km
from Calais: 250 km
from Nice: 854 km
from Bordeaux: 492 km
from Strasbourg: 604 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 25 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Thaon): Amblie, Anguerny, Anisy, Authie, Banville, Basly, Beny-sur-Mer, Cairon, Cambes-en-Plaine, Colombiers-sur-Seulles, Colomby-sur-Thaon, Creully, Cully, Douvres-la-Delivrande, Fontaine-Henry, Lantheuil, Lasson, Le Fresne-Camilly, Reviers, Rosel, Rots, Saint-Contest, Secqueville-en-Bessin, Tierceville and Villons-les-Buissons.
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 Thaon from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Thaon