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| Lisieux | ||
| region | Normandy | |
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| Residents | 20.171 (2018) | |
| height | 49 m | |
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Lisieux is a commune in France with 14,300 inhabitants Normandy in the department Calvados. It is also the capital of the Pays d’Auge.
background
- geography
Lisieux is located on the Touques River about 30 km south of the Seine estuary. In the urban area, the Orbiquet flows into the Touques as a right tributary.
The city has a train station on the railway line Paris – Cherbourg; the journey time to Paris Gare Saint-Lazare is one hour and forty minutes.
- history
The city was considered as early as Roman times Noviomagus Lexoviorum mentioned. Therefore, the inhabitants are still called today, after the original Celtic name of the place, LexoviensFrom the high Middle Ages to the Revolution, Lisieux was ruled by the powerful bishop counts, who made their city a flourishing metropolis. In the 19th century it gradually lost its religious and then its economic importance.
Lisieux regained importance in the 20th century. The city was used as the seat of one Carmel to the place of pilgrimage that gave its fame to the nun Thérèse Martin, better known by the name Therese of the Child Jesus, owes. After her death in 1897, devotion to the Carmelite became widespread; she was beatified in 1923 and canonized in 1925. The church, built from 1929 to 1954 (inauguration) in the neo-Romanesque style, is dedicated to her here. After Lourdes, the city is the second largest pilgrimage site in France with almost one and a half million pilgrims and visitors every year.
After destruction by Allied air raids from June 6th to 8th, 1944 on German positions that had been set up in the city to make the advance on Paris more difficult, the city was liberated by the Allies on August 23, 1944. In the 1950s, the city was rebuilt in a contemporary post-war style. The 70th anniversary of the liberation in 2014 was celebrated across the region, with guests including elderly regional veterans of the fighting at the time. There are two military cemeteries in Saint Désir, both for British liberators and for people from the Wehrmacht.
- City partnerships:
Lisieux is twinned with the English city Taunton in the county Somerset.
There are friendly contacts to the German town Wesel at the Lower Rhine.
getting there
| Distances | |
| Deauville | 30 km |
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| Caen | 50 km |
| Le Havre | 57 km |
| Evreux | 75 km |
| Bayeux | 80 km |
| Rouen | 100 km |
By plane
By train
The 1 Lisieux station is on the railway line Paris St. Lazare - Cherbourg, there are also direct connections to Trouville-Deauville.
By bus
In the street
By boat
mobility
Tourist Attractions
- 1 Sainte-Thérèse Basilica: one of the largest churches built in the 20th century
- 2 Chapelle du Carmel
- 3 St-Pierre Cathedral: built 1170–1250, Romanesque / Gothic, south tower from the 16th century
- Half-timbered buildings and mansions
- Jardin archéologique
- 4 Jardin de l’Eveché: by André Le Notre, the architect of the park of Palace of Versailles landscaped park in the center of Lisieux, next to the cathedral
- 5 Saint-Germain-de-Livet Castle: from the 15th / 16th centuries Century, owned by the city since 1958
- Jardin de l’Abbé Marie. Park in the former cemetery area.
- Le Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, 38 Boulevard Pasteur. The Museum of Art and History has archaeological, ethnological and iconographic exhibits.
- Le Domaine Saint Hippolyte, 3 km south of Lisieux. Manorial property from the 15th / 16th centuries Century.
- Le Château du Pré d’Auge. With Saint Méen church and fountain.
activities
shop
kitchen
nightlife
accommodation
health
Practical advice
trips
Web links
- http://www.ville-lisieux.fr - Lisieux official website
- Tourism website
