Livarot

Livarot is a Commune Frenchwoman, located in the department of the Calvados and the area Basse-Normandie.

This common gave its name to a cheese: the livarot.

The city shelters many companies of reputation such as the factory Georges Leroy, the Graindorge Cheese dairy where one manufactures inter alia the livarot, or the Cider-house of the Apple-brandy the Farm one (CCLF).

Geography

The town of Livarot is located in the Pays of Trough at approximately 20 km at the south-east of Lisieux.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the cheese dairy Graindorge : burned in 1999 then rebuilt in 2001
''' the cider-house the escutcheon '''

Personalities related to the commune

Joel the Religious bigot, Québécois radio presenter, born in Livarot in 1946.

See too

Articles of Wikipédia

Common of the Apple-brandy
Old communes of the Apple-brandy

External bonds

Official site of the Community of communes of the Country of Livarot
Some sights of Livarot and its markets at the beginning of the 20th century.
Livarot on the site of the national geographical Institute
Livarot on the site of INSEE
Livarot on the site of Quid
Localization of Livarot on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Livarot on Mapquest
Image of livarot (source: GéoPortail)

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