Cesny-les-Sources is a town of Calvados, Normandy region, 25 km south of Caen. It was created on 1 January 2019 following the merger of Cesny-Bois-Halbout, its seat (600), Acqueville (190 inhabitants), Angoville (28 inhabitants) Placy (160 inhabitants) and Tournebu (350 inhabitants) now with a total of some 1,350 inhabitants.
The vast territory of nearly 34 square kilometers belongs to the Suisse Normande, rolling green natural area, as suggested by its name. Its landscape is dotted with shale hills that announce the Armorican, fields and meadows recalling the grove, surrounded by hedges or walls of granite and small streams.
The heritage villages now associated, relatively untouched by the fighting of 1944 and their natural and bucolic delight lovers of green tourism, before or after a visit to Caen and the coast.
Once commercial towns enjoying a slight resurgence thanks to the proximity of Caen or smaller villages agricultural, different localities to present unified possess a wealth of interest to observe during a tour "discovery".
On Cesny-Bois-Halbout we will focus and at the Hospice Saint-Jacques, a former leper colony of medieval origin (twelfth and thirteenth centuries), which now houses a retirement home and whose chapel, preserved, is listed on the Inventory of historical monuments.
The parish church of the village, dedicated to the Assumption of Our Lady, is the twelfth century and has retained Romanesque elements like the door. further noted a beautiful sundial canonical (to mark the times of masses and other liturgical highlights) on the south wall.
The old laundry with its noble frame and Castle Bosny (XVIII) complete this survey.
A Acqueville, two buildings are protected as historical monuments.
Motte Castle, first built in the early seventeenth century on behalf of an adviser to the parliament of Normandy, then revamped the turn of the eighteenth. It includes a main building with classical façade with two wings. A moat surrounds the assembly. The grand staircase dates from the late nineteenth century, and it is noted that the avenues and trees along or to the castle are now natural sites.
See then, the Saint-Aubin church Romanesque base, whose oldest parts date back to the eleventh century. The portal, very well made, a mass dial and carved capitals ornaments justified the ranking.
Moreover, the village, the manor of Acqueville (XVI) and said farm Courtfontaine (XVIII) also bear witness to the prosperity of the town.
On Angoville, a fountain from 1846 and the Romanesque church base, both dedicated to St. Anne, have been preserved.
A Placy, Saint Firmin church depended on the nearby Cistercian abbey of Val-Richer (city of Saint-Omer), and presents a singular appearance: the nave and chancel surmounted by a bell tower form a solid and sober rectangle. Inside, several stones are decorated with the coat of arms of the Lords of places, Placy, the sixteenth castle rebuilt in the seventeenth century is still visible on the old town.
At Tournebu finally seat of a small manor held by the eponymous family, the feudal castle of the city remains a circular keep protected as historical monuments. The rest of the field is in the state remains.
The Saint-Hilaire, the old wash house built on the course of the Width or the memorial to fallen Canadian soldiers in 1944 can also be observed.
On the sidelines or extension of the discovery of the villages and their heritage, many hiking and biking trails in the heart of the typical lush greenery of the Norman Switzerland (wood, crops, meadows, small rivers) are possible. Maps and information +33 2 31 27 90 30.
