Tour-en-Bessin travel guide
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Visit Tour-en-Bessin: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Tour-en-Bessin is situated in the Calvados department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 33 km from Caen, the department capital. (General information: Tour-en-Bessin is 233 km from Paris and 263 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Bayeux at 6 km from Tour-en-Bessin
Popular places to visit near Tour-en-Bessin: these include Bayeux at 6 km and Arromanches at 12 km.
Cathédrale Notre Dame (Bayeux) is a listed 'religious monument' at 6km and Plantbessin is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 10km. 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 Tour-en-Bessin, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Tour-en-Bessin
See France This Way travel guides for Calvados and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Tour-en-Bessin.
Note that all distances from Tour-en-Bessin shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Tour-en-Bessin holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Tour-en-Bessin (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 Tour-en-Bessin and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Plantbessin (10km) : Jardins du château de Brécy (15km) :
- Religious monuments: Cathédrale Notre Dame (Bayeux) (6km) : Prieuré (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (14km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre (Rucqueville) (14km) : Prieuré de Saint Gabriel Brécy (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (15km) : Abbaye de Cerisy-la-Forêt (Cerisy-la-Foret) (16km) : Abbaye de Caen (Caen) (33km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Domjean (39km) : Cabourg (48km) :
Map of places to visit near Tour-en-Bessin & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Tour-en-Bessin
Canton: Trévières
Arrondissement: Bayeux
Department: Calvados
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 14400
Distance to Tour-en-Bessin
from Caen: 33 km
from Paris: 233 km
from Calais: 263 km
from Nice: 874 km
from Bordeaux: 496 km
from Strasbourg: 627 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 22 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Tour-en-Bessin): Barbeville, Bayeux, Blay, Campigny, Colleville-sur-Mer, Commes, Cottun, Crouay, Cussy, Etreham, Gueron, Maisons, Monceaux-en-Bessin, Mosles, Port-en-Bessin-Huppain, Ranchy, Russy, Saint-Loup-Hors, Sainte-Honorine-Des-Pertes, Sully, Vaucelles and Vaux-sur-Aure.
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 Tour-en-Bessin from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Tour-en-Bessin