Hermanville-sur-Mer is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northern France.

Sights

• 13th century church
• Commonwealth war cemetery
• Old village center
• Villa la Bluette, an 1899 villa by architect Hector Guimard
• Villa La Houle
• Manoir de Prébois

Events

The beach of Hermanville, part of Sword Beach, was one of the targets of Operation Overlord on June 6, 1944. The Cod German stronghold was located on the coast. A Norwegian destroyer, the HNoMS Svenner, sank in front of Hermanville.

Twin towns

Hermanville is twinned with:

• Tangmere in West Sussex, England
• Nominingue, Laurentides, Quebec, Canada - since 2002

Personalities

Hermanville-sur-Mer was the birthplace of:

• Jean François Sarrazin (1611?–1654), author
• Alain Touraine (born 1925), sociologist

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department

References

Based on the article in the French Wikipedia.

External links

• Tourism office webpage