The tourism in the Apple-brandy is one of the engines of the economy of the department and the Normandy.

Balneal tourism

The beaches calvadosiennes profited, during the second part of the 19th century of the proximity of Paris, of the development of the railway network and the mode of the sea bathings. The duke of Morny has to create the seaside resort of Deauville since 1860, the train coming from Paris yarrête in 1863. The mother-of-pearl Coast and the flowered Coast (Houlgate, Deauville, Cabourg, Honfleur) are bordered of secondary villas to the paces of small manors, of the Parisian and English rich person, built during the Belle Time.

Historical tourism

The Calvados accommodates many tourists on the beaches of the unloading of 1944. Several monuments recall the history of the Débarquement on the coasts Normans:

• the Memorial of Caen, with Caen;
• the museum D-Day Omaha with Vierville-on-Sea;
• the museum of the battle of the Cliff pocket with Cliff;
• the museum of the battery of Merville with Merville-Franceville-Beach;
• the museum of the unloading with Arromanches-the-Baths;
• the memorial of the de Gaulle general to Bayeux;
• the museum of the Atlantic Wall to Ouistreham;
• the museum Juno beach with Courseulles-on-Sea;
• the museum memorial of the battle of Normandy to Bayeux;
• the museum Pegasus memorial with Ranville;

Gastronomical tourism

More and more, the Gastronomie Norman attracts the tourists in the search of “products of the soil” such as Camembert cheese, livarot, Pont-l'Ev4eque cheese, apple-brandy, pommel, Cidre, scallops of Port in Bessin… the rural Tourisme develops much.

Ecological tourism

• the Regional natural park of the Marshes of Cotentin and Bessin, near Isigny-on-Sea;

• the Natural reserve of the slope of Mesnil-Sun to Damblainville;
• the Cliffs of the black Cows with Houlgate.
• the Swiss Norman

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