Caen is a port city and capital of Calvados department in northern France's Normandy region. Its center features the Château de Caen, a circa-1060 castle built by William the Conqueror. It stands on a hill flanked by the Romanesque abbeys of Saint-Étienne and Sainte-Trinité, which both date from the same period. The multimedia Mémorial museum is devoted to World War II, the 1944 Battle of Normandy and the Cold War.
L' Abbaye - aux-Hommes -- The Abbey of Saint-Étienne, also known as Abbaye aux Hommes by contrast with the Abbaye aux Dames, is a former Benedictine monastery in the French city of Caen, Normandy, dedicated to Saint Stephen. It was founded in 1063 by William the Conqueror and is one of the most important Romanesque buildings in Normandy.
OLD ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH --The Church of Saint-Étienne-le-Vieux is a former Roman Catholic church, today partly ruined, located in the old city of Caen, Calvados, France. It is not to be confused with the nearby Church of Saint-Étienne, the former church of the Abbaye aux Hommes.
MAISON DES QUATRANS --The Quatrans house is a half-timbered house built in the 1460s in the old city center of Caen . The entire old Quatrans hotel has been classified as historical monuments since the July 24 , 1953 . The house takes its name from a confusion with another hotel, known as the Four Quatrans manor, which belonged to the Quatrans family,the king's tabellions in Caen, and which were located slightly further north
CAEN CASTLE --The Château de Caen is a castle in the Norman city of Caen in the Calvados département. It has been officially classed as a Monument historique since 1997.The castle was built c. 1060 by William the Conqueror (William of Normandy), who successfully conquered England in 1066.
The castle saw several engagements during the Hundred Years' War (1346, 1417, 1450). The keep was pulled down in 1793 during the French Revolution, by order of the National Convention.
The castle, which was used as a barracks during World War II, was bombed in 1944 and seriously damaged.
In 1946, Michel de Boüard, an archeologist from Caen, decided to start excavations in the area of the castle to bring to the light medieval traces. The Musée des Beaux-Arts, which was installed in 1967, opened in 1971.
QUARTIER HISTORIQUE DU VAUGUEUX --is a small old quarter located in Caen .Le Vaugueux is a dry valley framed to the west by the rocky escarpment on which William the Conqueror established the castle of Caen and to the east by the plateau on which the church of Saint-Gilles was founded and later the ' Abbaye aux Dames . A path, the cur
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