Villiers-le-Sec travel guide
Visit Villiers-le-Sec: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Creully at 2 km from Villiers-le-Sec
Location: Villiers-le-Sec is situated in the Calvados department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 19 km from Caen, the department capital. (General information: Villiers-le-Sec is 218 km from Paris and 253 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Villiers-le-Sec: these include Creully at 2 km and Arromanches at 7 km. Jardins du château de Brécy is a listed remarkable garden at 1 km and Prieuré de Saint Gabriel Brécy (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) is a listed religious monument at 2 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 Villiers-le-Sec, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Villiers-le-Sec
See France This Way travel guides for Calvados and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Villiers-le-Sec.
Note that all distances from Villiers-le-Sec shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Villiers-le-Sec 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 Villiers-le-Sec
- Courseulles-sur-Mer: market every Tuesday & Friday (9km)
- Bayeux: market every Wednesday & Saturday (10km)
- Tilly-sur-Seulles: market every Sunday (13km)
- Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer: market every Thursday (14km)
- Douvres-la-Delivrande: market every Thursday (14km)
- Caen: market every Wednesday & Tuesday & Thursday & Sunday & Friday (20km)
- Herouville-Saint-Clair: market every Wednesday (20km)
- Mondeville: market every Thursday (22km)
- Le Molay-Littry: market every Thursday (23km)
- Ouistreham: market every Wednesday & Saturday - seasonal market only - (23km)
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 Villiers-le-Sec and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Villiers-le-Sec map below.
Most Beautiful Village Beuvron (40km)
Religious Monument Prieuré de Saint Gabriel Brécy (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (2km); Eglise de Saint Pierre (Rucqueville) (4km); Prieuré (Saint-Gabriel-Brecy) (4km); Cathédrale Notre Dame (Bayeux) (10km); Abbaye de Caen (Caen) (19km); Abbaye de Cerisy-la-Forêt (Cerisy-la-Foret) (28km)
Remarkable Garden Jardins du château de Brécy (1km); Plantbessin (19km); Jardins du château de Vendeuvre (49km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Bayeux (10km)
Village D'etape Villers-Bocage (24km); Torigni-sur-Vire (42km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Cabourg (33km); Domjean (48km)
Zoo Or Wildlife Park Parc zoologique de Jurques (35km)
Map of places to visit near Villiers-le-Sec & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Villiers-le-Sec
Canton: Ryes
Arrondissement: Bayeux
Department: Calvados
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 14480
Distance to Villiers-le-Sec
from Caen (local prefecture): 19 km
from Paris: 218 km
from Calais: 253 km
from Nice: 863 km
from Bordeaux: 495 km
from Strasbourg: 612 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 29 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Villiers-le-Sec): Amblie, Arromanches, Asnelles, Banville, Bazenville, Carcagny, Colombiers-sur-Seulles, Coulombs, Crepon, Creully, Cully, Esquay-sur-Seulles, Lantheuil, Le Fresne-Camilly, Le Manoir, Martragny, Meuvaines, Nonant, Rucqueville, Ryes, Saint-Come-de-Fresne, Saint-Gabriel-Brecy, Sainte-Croix-sur-Mer, Sommervieu, Tierceville, Tracy-sur-Mer, Vaux-sur-Seulles, Ver-sur-Mer and Vienne-en-Bessin.
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 Villiers-le-Sec from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Villiers-le-Sec