Editing Calvados (department) (section)

==Tourism==
Calvados is one of the most visited areas in France because of its seaside resorts which are among the most prestigious in France with their luxurious hotels, casinos, green countryside, manors, castles, the quiet, the chalk cliffs, the typical Norman houses, the history of [[William the Conqueror]], Caen, Bayeux, Lisieux, the famous D-day beaches and numerous museums about the Second World War. Culinary specialties from the verdant countryside of Calvados are abundant: [[cider]], [[calvados]], [[camembert]], and [[Pont-l'Évêque (cheese)|Pont-l'Évêque]] cheeses.

One of the advantage of Calvados is to be fairly near large urban centers (Paris, Ile de France). Calvados is therefore often preferred for holidays and for weekends and sometimes considered as the ''countryside of Paris''.

Calvados, via the port of [[Ouistreham]], is an entrance to the continent from Britain. There are two airports: [[Caen - Carpiquet Airport|Caen-Carpiquet]] and [[Deauville - Saint-Gatien Airport|Deauville-Saint Gatien]]. The department of Calvados has several popular tourist areas: the [[Bessin]], the Plain of [[Caen]], the [[Bocage]] Virois, the [[Côte de Nacre]], the [[Côte Fleurie]] and the [[Pays d'Auge]]. Several beaches of Calvados are popular for water sports, including [[Cabourg]] and [[Merville-Franceville-Plage]].

Tourist capacity (2022):<ref name=complet/>
* 10,200 hotel rooms
* 14,410 camping sites
* 12,795 other beds (tourist resorts, holiday villages, rural gites, youth hostels)

===Second homes===
As of 2019, 17.9% of available housing in the department were second homes.<ref name=complet/>

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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
|+Communes with population over 2,000 and more than 20% of second homes in 2019<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://statistiques-locales.insee.fr/#bbox=-151257,6388181,223262,195389&c=indicator&i=pop_legales.popmun&i2=bdcom.pt_log_rsecocc&s=2019&s2=2019&t=A01&t2=A01&view=map1|title=Statistiques locales: Part des résidences secondaires, population municipale|publisher=[[INSEE]]|access-date=6 July 2022|archive-date=29 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129004346/https://statistiques-locales.insee.fr/#bbox=-151257,6388181,223262,195389&c=indicator&i=pop_legales.popmun&i2=bdcom.pt_log_rsecocc&s=2019&s2=2019&t=A01&t2=A01&view=map1|url-status=live}}</ref>
! Town
! Municipal population
! Percentage of<br />second homes
|-
| [[Villers-sur-Mer]]
| {{formatnum:2543}}
| 83.0%
|-
| [[Cabourg]]
| {{formatnum:3558}}
| 79.7%
|-
| [[Deauville]]
| {{formatnum:3565}}
| 71.9%
|-
| [[Trouville-sur-Mer]]
| {{formatnum:4603}}
| 67.4%
|-
| [[Merville-Franceville-Plage]]
| {{formatnum:2186}}
| 57.9%
|-
| [[Courseulles-sur-Mer]]
| {{formatnum:4196}}
| 52.2%
|-
| [[Bernières-sur-Mer]]
| {{formatnum:2274}}
| 44.3%
|-
| [[Dives-sur-Mer]]
| {{formatnum:5276}}
| 39.9%
|-
| [[Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, Calvados|Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer]]
| {{formatnum:2237}}
| 39.5%
|-
| [[Hermanville-sur-Mer]]
| {{formatnum:3110}}
| 31.7%
|-
| [[Luc-sur-Mer]]
| {{formatnum:3213}}
| 30.1%
|-
| [[Lion-sur-Mer]]
| {{formatnum:2536}}
| 29.8%
|-
| [[Honfleur]]
| {{formatnum:6733}}
| 27.9%
|-
| [[Ouistreham]]
| {{formatnum:9344}}
| 25.8%
|-
| [[Touques, Calvados|Touques]]
| {{formatnum:3731}}
| 25.0%
|}
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<gallery>
File:Caen France (28).JPG|[[Caen]]
File:Chateau de Falaise 2008.jpg|[[Château de Falaise]]
File:Harold dead bayeux tapestry.png|A fragment of the [[Bayeux Tapestry]]
File:Omaha-beach-cemetery.jpg|[[Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial]]
File:Beuvron-en-Auge plein.JPG|Half-timber houses in [[Beuvron-en-Auge]], one of the [[Les Plus Beaux Villages de France|Most Beautiful Villages of France]]
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