Saint-Vigor-the-Large

Saint-Vigor-the-Large is a common French, located in the department of the Calvados and the area Basse-Normandie.

Geography

Commune bordering in the North-East on Bayeux, important zone of marketing activity.

History

The Phaunus Mount was high places of the worship druidic until Saint-Vigor the évangélise.

Vigor of Bayeux was bishop of Bayeux from 513 to 537, there gave its name to the commune and was perhaps its tomb. Eudes, brother of William the Conqueror founded a monastery Benedictine there.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Saint-Sulpice Church, 13th century
Priory of the 13th century, classified historic building in 1908, convent of the Nuns of Notre-Dame of Charity

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Apple-brandy

External bonds

Saint-Vigor-the-Large on the site of the national geographical Institute
Saint-Vigor-the-Large on the site of Saint-Vigor-the-Large INSEE
on the site of Quid
Localization of Saint-Vigor-the-Large on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Saint-Vigor-the-Large on Mapquest

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