Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Caen, France

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 6.4 km
Ascend 87 m
Descend 80 m

Explore Caen in France with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in CaenIndividual Sights in Caen

Sight 1: Manoir des Gens d'Armes

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Manoir des Gens d'Armes

The Manoir des Gens d'armes, also known as the Manoir de Nollent or the Manoir de la Talbotière, is a 15th-century manor house located in Caen, Normandy, France. It has been listed as a historical monument since 1862.

Wikipedia: Manoir des Gens d'armes (FR)

1294 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 2: Tour Guillaume-Le-Roy

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The Leroy Tower, sometimes called the Guillaume-le-Roy Tower, built in the 14th century, is one of the main remains of urban fortifications, which stands on the territory of the French commune of Caen, in the Calvados department, in the Normandy region.

Wikipedia: Tour Leroy (FR)

245 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Hôtel de Than

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The Hôtel de Than is a private mansion built in Caen in the first part of the 16th century.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Than (FR)

430 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 4: Immeuble, ancien musée de la Poste

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The Post and Telecommunications Museum is a former museum in Caen dedicated to the ancient and recent history of post office and communication techniques in Lower Normandy.

Wikipedia: Musée de la Poste et des Télécommunications (FR)

258 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Hôtel de Mondrainville

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The Hôtel de Mondrainville, also known as the Hôtel de la Monnaie, is a private mansion built between 1531 and 1562 in the old city centre of Caen by Étienne Duval de Mondrainville. It was located at 12 rue de la Monnaie, partly destroyed in 1944, and is now located at 7 rue Gémare.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Mondrainville (FR)

195 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Ancien Hôtel Lebourguignon-Duperré

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The Hotel Lebourguignon-Duperré is a building located in Caen, in the Calvados department of France. It is listed as a Historic Monument.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Lebourguignon-Duperré (FR)

147 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Camille Blaisot

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Camille Blaisot

Camille Blaisot was a French politician and lawyer.

Wikipedia: Camille Blaisot (EN)

199 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Maison natale de Malherbe

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The house known as Malherbe's birthplace is a building located in Caen, in the French department of Calvados, Normandy. Rebuilt on the site of the birthplace of François de Malherbe, it dates from the end of the 16th century and is listed as a Historic Monument.

Wikipedia: Maison natale de Malherbe (FR)

237 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Hôtel de Banville

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The Hôtel de Banville is a private mansion located in Caen, Calvados, France. It is listed as a historical monument.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Banville (FR)

122 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Hôtel Daumesnil

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The Hôtel Daumesnil is a private mansion located in Caen. It was built in the seventeenth century on the new Royal Square. It was listed as a historical monument for the first time on 1 June 1927 and a second time on 29 November 2021.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Daumesnil (FR)

237 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Pavillon des Sociétés savantes

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The Pavilion of Learned Societies, also known in the past as the "Pavillon de la Faire" or "Musée Langlois", is a building built in Caen in the 18th century, originally to house the city's aldermen during fairs.

Wikipedia: Pavillon des sociétés savantes (FR)

672 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 12: Maison Charbonnier

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The Maison Charbonnier is a building located in Caen, in the French department of Calvados, France. It is listed as a historical monument.

Wikipedia: Maison Charbonnier (FR)

66 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Hôtel Fouet

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The Word hotel is a mansion located at Place Saint-Sauveur in Caen.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Fouet (FR)

120 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Hôtel du Grand-Cerf

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The Hôtel du Grand-Cerf is a private mansion located in Caen built in the 16th century. It is listed as a historical monument.

Wikipedia: Hôtel du Grand-Cerf (FR)

189 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Hôtel Canteil de Condé

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The Canteil de Condé hotel is a building located in Caen, in the Calvados department, in France. He is registered as historic monuments.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Canteil de Condé (FR)

168 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Pavillons de l'entrée de la rue Guillaume-le-Conquérant

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The pavilions at the entrance to Rue Guillaume-le-Conquérant are two buildings located in Caen, France.

Wikipedia: Pavillons de l'entrée de la rue Guillaume-le-Conquérant (Caen) (FR)

911 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 17: Chapelle du Bon Sauveur

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The public mental health establishment of Caen, previously named Le Bon Sauveur, then Centre hospitalier spécialisée de Caen, is a former convent transformed into a psychiatric hospital from the nineteenth century by the Congregation of the Daughters of the Good Saviour founded in the first part of the eighteenth century.

Wikipedia: Centre hospitalier spécialisé du Bon Sauveur (FR)

431 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 18: Jardin Luna Rossa

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The Jardin de la Luna Rossa in Caen is a small museum of outsider art set up in a garden on rue Damozanne, not far from the Abbaye aux Hommes, behind the Quartier Lorge.

Wikipedia: Jardin de la Luna Rossa (FR)

489 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 19: Manoir du Pont-Créon

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The Manoir du Pont-Créon is an old manor house located to the west of the current city centre of Caen, in the Saint-Ouen district. The building has been listed as a historical monument since 1 June 1927.

Wikipedia: Manoir du Pont-Créon (FR)

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