Sallenelles

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GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION		CLOSEST TOWNS
Town	Sallenelles	Amfreville at 1.9 km (3 min)
Insee code	14665	Merville-Franceville-Plage at 3.2 km (5 min)
Postcode	14121	Ranville at 4.3 km (5 min)
Latitude	49.2645880	Gonneville-en-Auge at 5.6 km (7 min)
Longitude	-0.2271300	Bénouville at 5.7 km (6 min)
Altitude	From 0 to 40 meters	Bavent at 6.8 km (8 min)
Surface	1.25 km²	Saint-Aubin-d'Arquenay at 7.7 km (8 min)
Population	277 inhabitants	Escoville at 7.8 km (10 min)
Density	231 inhabitants/km²	Varaville at 8 km (9 min)
Chief town	Caen (at 16 km, 17 min)	Blainville-sur-Orne at 8.7 km (8 min)
Department	Calvados	Colombelles at 9.1 km (9 min)
Region	Lower Normandy	Search another town

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TOWN PRESENTATION

Sallenelles is a French commune, located in the department of Calvados and Lower Normandy, near the town of Caen, located on the estuary of the Orne. It has an area of 1.25 square kilometers, and in 2008 it had a population of 272 inhabitants (Sallenelles). Sallenelles is located at the mouth of the Orne 49 ° 15'50 "N 0 ° 13'41" W, 3 km from Franceville. The municipality has an average elevation of 20 m, with a minimum altitude of 0 m, and up to 40 m. The town center, around the town hall, has an altitude of 5 m.

The bay is an area of marshes rich with flora and birds diversified. The town has had in the past to adapt to environmental changes (coastal erosion, re-routing of the Orne, digging of the canal from Caen to the sea). Environmental specificity of the bay makes it an important center for observation, awareness and study of wetlands, with salt marshes, beaches, mudflats, dunes to sea buckthorn. There are many rare and protected species at regional and national, such as shelduck, little egret, the Kentish plover, Eurasian Spoonbill, or seals.

The town takes its name from the Saunerie, an activity that long dominated the local economy with shipbuilding. One of the earliest references to the local salt date of the founding of the Abbey of Saint-Martin Troarn second by Roger de Montgomery, and is a paper co-authored by William the Conqueror and his wife Matilda of Flanders, confirming the donations of salt to the abbey. The other local activities, shipbuilding flourished in the 18th century. Following a royal edict of 21 September 1756, allowing the trader to trade directly with Caen the New World. The village was then known throughout the Normandy coast for its frigates (which reach up to 48 m), its bisquines his sloops, its spikes or its boats. Fishing and hunting gradually replaced these activities, and from the 1950s, villagers reaped the bloodworms, the Pelouze, used in recreational fishing by the sea these days, except for some farms, joint lives mainly from tourism (you can note the House of nature and the estuary of the Orne), or when its people are working on other joint (the joint is close to the town of Caen).

The bay and the town was also a strategic area where the fighting took place during the Battle of Normandy in 1944. A monument is erected in memory of the Brigade Piron, who participated in the liberation of the town.

Detailed information
Natural sites	Bay of Sallenelles, Headland of the Roque

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