Mézidon-Canon

Mézidon-Canon is a common French, located in the department of the Calvados and the area Basse-Normandie.

Geography

The locality is established on left bank of the Dives, at equal distance of Cabourg (in North), of Caen (in the North-West) and from Falaise (in the South).

Administration

Demography

History

  • This commune is resulting from fusion, with the wire of time, several communes, Mirbel in 1831, Breuil in 1848, Canon in 1972.
  • Canon, commune managed by priests, is one of the fulcrums used by Odon Stigand to build a strategic fortress at the edge of the Divine ones, at the request of 1050 of the duke of Normandy, Guillaume the Bastard one. Odon sets up around this fortress a baronnie, and he becomes the first baron de Mézodon - field or house of Odon. Towards 1050, of return of a crusade, it founds Mézidon. Very marked by the Christian mystic, it builds the priory Holy-Bores following the miraculous cure of the one of its sons. This one, second baron de Mézidon after death in 1066 of his/her father, continues to give a strong religious character to the region. Collegial, priories, churches develop, and all the Normandy runs in this area of miracles. Canon is especially known for its castle and its church. Built at the 17th century, the first castle was destroyed then rebuilt at the 18th century by Élie de Beaumont and presents a mixture of styles, traditional and English.

  • May 1st, th and 2nd 1999 organization of the world cup of walk

Places and monuments

  • Castle of Breuil 17th century.
  • Castle of Canon 17th century, acquired in 1768 per Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont who transformed it by raising it and capping it with one roof to Italian: balustrade decorated with fire pots, chimneys, fore-part, northern garlic of the commun runs; parks with many factories of which a house Chinese, the temple of Whining, pigeon, " chartreuses" or closed orchards communicating by bays in semicircular arch.
  • Ruins of the Béranger castle 17th century.
  • Church of Mézidon 19th century: retable style néo-antique, console 18th, statue of co. Beard 15th.
  • Church of Canon partly 12/13e: retable 18th century, Christ 17th century, tombstone of Pierre Lemonier, " first good old man couronné" (1777), memory curious about crownings of the " vertu" practiced by the lords of the manor of Canon to the 18th century, baptismal font 18th century.
  • Church of Breuil 12th century/15th century: in front of furnace bridge in the style of Daubin 18th century, antependium with rinceaux and representation of St Pierre 18th century, statue of Holy crowned 15th century, confessional and baptismal font 17th century.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of the Apple-brandy

External bonds

  • the castle of Canon
  • Mézidon-Canon on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Mézidon-Canon on the site of INSEE
  • Mézidon-Canon on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Mézidon-Canon on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Mézidon-Canon on Mapquest

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