A small and peaceful village
![In the foreground is the Anisy pond and in the background, behind the weeping willow and lakeside trees, the Anisy manor house.](https://www.coeurdenacretourisme.com/app/uploads/2021/06/anisy-c.-marcello-mg-9825.jpg)
The village of Anisy is a small locality situated a few kilometres from Douvres-la-Délivrande, North of Caen.
The Dan, a small quiet river, rises in the village.
After the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944 on Juno Beach, Canadian troops reached the villages of Anisy and Mathieu, covering a distance of 12 kilometres from the beach. One of their objectives was then to reach Carpiquet airfield and the city of Caen.
Things to see and do:
- Saint-Pierre church : with its Romanesque door decorated with capitals, its nave and choir built in the 11th and 12th centuries and its high altar surmounted by a baroque altarpiece of the 17th century,
- the well : a 19th century well made of limestone and wood. The well: a 19th century well made of limestone and wood. There were 50 wells in the village of Anisy until the 1950s.
![The well at Anisy is surrounded by two beds of pink, orange and red flowers: trapezoidal in shape, it is topped by a tiled roof, with the framework laid directly on the walls of the well. Behind the gate, you can see the wooden shaft around which the seal rope was wound.](https://www.coeurdenacretourisme.com/app/uploads/2021/06/le-puits-en-fleurs-anisy-credit-brigitte-haize-christelle-hudson.jpg)
![Taken from the street, the photograph shows part of the side facade of the church: a plain facade pierced by pointed-arched windows. In front, you can see the wall of the cemetery and, extending from it, a small building in the classical style with an inscription on its frontispiece. - credit: Alain Lemarie](https://www.coeurdenacretourisme.com/app/uploads/2021/06/anisy-eglise-patrimoine-religieux-credit-alain-lemarie.jpg)