Two villages in one…
The villages of Anguerny and Colomby-sur-Thaon merged in 2019 to form a single municipality: Colomby-Anguerny.
This peaceful municipality is a lovely place to stay in the heart of the Normandy countryside, close to Caen and the Côte de Nacre, between Courseulles-sur-Met and Ouistreham.
The small village was liberated on June 6, 1944, by two Canadian regiments, the Régiment de la Chaudière and the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada, and by the Fort Garry Horse armored regiment.
Unusual fact:
The Parisian artist Poulbot bought a vacation home in the town in 1920. He was a famous illustrator and poster artist known for his drawings of the lives of the children of Montmartre: the Poulbots.
Things to see and do :
- The Manor House and Tithe Barn (16th century, manoir et grange au dîme): a building where the agricultural income collected for the tithe was stored.
- The fire house : Built in 1875 on the edge of the Anguerny pond, at the northern exit of the village, this small fire house served as a shed for the firemen of the villages of Colomby-Anguerny and Basly and housed a hand-operated fire pump, fed by water from the pond.
- The church of Saint-Martin (église Saint-Martin): From the 11th and 14th centuries, the bell tower is probably one of the oldest in Calvados.
- The church of Saint-Victor (église Saint-Victor) : probably built in the 12th century.
- The stele of the Queen’s Own Riffles of Canada : Canadian regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division which contributed to the liberation of Anguerny after having liberated the commune of Bernières-sur-Mer.
- The Inukshuk : a pile of stones which symbolises for the Inuit a link between the temporal and spiritual world, built in homage to Canadian soldiers.
- Colomby Manor (private): an 18th century manor house, it was, during the German occupation, the seat of a Kommandantur.
