See also: Apple-brandy (homonymy)

The department of the Apple-brandy (14) is a department French of the area Basse-Normandie.

History

The department was created with the French revolution, the March 4th 1790, pursuant to the law of the December 22nd 1789, starting from part of old the province of Normandy. One considered a time to name it “Flowering ash-Lower”, before choosing his current name.

See also: Rocks of the Apple-brandy

The legend wants that the rocks with broad of Arromanches-the-Baths took the name of the El Salvador (become Calvados with the wire of the linguistic deformations), ship of the Spanish Invincible Armada which would have been failed there. But this name would come rather from the two backs ( dorsa in Latin, rise), which with broad appeared bald people ( apple-brandy in Latin) because of weak vegetation, thus being used as reference mark to the sailors.

Policy

detailed Article: Political of the Apple-brandy

• the Community of communes of the Common Apple-brandies
• of the Apple-brandy
• Old communes of the Apple-brandy
• List of the deputies of the Apple-brandy
• List of the senators of the Apple-brandy
• List of the general advisers of the Apple-brandy
• List of the prefects of the Apple-brandy

Geography

detailed Article: Geography of the Apple-brandy

The Calvados belongs to the Région of Basse-Normandie. It is bordering on the departments of the the Eure in the east, the Orne in the south and the Manche in the west, while its northern side is consisted the coasts of the Manche.

Description of the Coast of the Apple-brandy, Honfleur with Isigny at the XVIIIe century by Charles Bréard

Names of certain cities not-exact

Climate

detailed Article: Climate of the Apple-brandy

Economy

detailed Article: Economy of the Apple-brandy

Demography

detailed Article: Demography of the Apple-brandy

The inhabitants of the Apple-brandies are Calvadosiens.

The Apple-brandy counted, in 1999,648 299 inhabitants, it is the 30ème department more populated France. The density is of 117 hab/km ².

Population pyramid Apple-brandy

• More than 75 years 7,2%
• 60 - 74 years 13,16%
• 40 - 59 years 25,52%
• 20 - 39 years 28,53%
• 0 - 19 years 25,6%

Culture

detailed Article: Culture in the Apple-brandy

Eugene Boudin, Erik Satie and Alphonse Allais was born with Honfleur.

Deauville accommodates the Festival of the American cinema and Cabourg that of the romantic Cinema.

In Caen are held each year in autumn the festival Nördik Impakt, festival of electronic culture of which the evening of fence gathers from 10.000 to 15.000 festival with the exhibition site as well as the Boreal ones of Normandy which is devoted to the Scandinavian culture.

The Bayeux Price of the war correspondents is decreed each year with journalists of the whole world.

Tourism

detailed Article: Tourism in the Apple-brandy

- to also see Flowered Coast

Tourist capacity of reception (2001):

• 7.818 hotel rooms
• 13.734 sites in camp-site
• 1.176 beds (Vacation villages)
• 619 rural lodgings

The department is divided into tourist host countries: the Bessin, the Plain of Caen, the Virois Scrap-metal, the Mother-of-pearl Coast, the Flowered Coast and the Country of Trough.

The Apple-brandy, thanks to the port of Ouistreham is a main door on the continent for the British. There are two airports, Caen Carpiquet and Deauville Holy Gatien.

Religion

For the Catholic church, the Apple-brandy corresponds to the Diocèse of Bayeux and Lisieux.

See too

Internal bonds

• General advice of the Common Apple-brandies
• French Department
• of the Apple-brandy
• List of bridges of the Apple-brandy

External bonds

• Prefecture of the Apple-brandy
• General advice of the Apple-brandy
• tourist Guide of the Apple-brandy
• Apple-brandy and country of trough in images
• With discovered Apple-brandy
• Departmental committee of tourism of the Apple-brandy
• Internet site on the town of Cairon
• Apple-brandy Charles de Granville

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