Caen - Administration

2 Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military personal). Caen is a city and a commune of northwestern France. It is the préfecture (administrative capital) of the Calvados département, and the capital of the administrative Basse-Normandie (Lower Normandy) région. Population 115,000, total urban sprawl around 200,000. ...

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Recent Mayors of Caen have included: 1959-1970: Jean-Marie Louvel, MRP Centre démocrate 1970-2001: Jean-Marie Girault Parti républicain UDF Since 2001: Brigitte Le Brethon RPR UMP In 1952, the small commune of Venoix became part of Caen. In 1990, the agglomeration of Caen was organized into a district, transformed in 2002 into a Communauté d'agglomération (Grand Caen, renamed Caen la Mer in 2004) which gathers 29 communes, including Villons-les-Buissons which recen ...

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Caen is built in an area of high humidity. The Orne flows through Caen, as well as different small rivers known as les Odons, most of them having been buried under the city to improve urban hygiene. Caen sits 10 km away from the Channel. A canal was built under Napoleon III and runs parallel to the river Orne to link Caen to the sea at all times, notwithstanding tides. ...

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Caen has one of the first type and controversial tramway on tyres - in actual fact a guided busway based on Bombardier Transportation's Guided Light Transit technology - and a very efficient network of city buses, operated under the name Twisto. Faced with the caennais' anger against the project, the municipality had to pursue the project with only 23% of the population in favour of the new form of transport. Caen city centre's road layout was deeply changed and to this date the formely traffic jamless centr ...

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Caen - Castle. The castle (Château de Caen), built ca. 1060 by William the Conqueror, who successfully conquered England in 1066, is one of the largest medieval fortresses of Western Europe. It remained an essential feature of Norman strategy and policy. At Christmas 1182 a royal court celebration for Christmas in the aula of Caen Castle brought together Henry II and his sons, Richard the Lionheart and John Lackland, receiving more than a thousand knights. Caen Castle, along with all of Normandy, was hand ...

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Caen - Education. The Université de Caen has around 25,000 students in three different campuses linked by a tramway. The University is divided into 11 UFR (Fundamental Units of Research), 6 institutes, 1 engineering school, 2 IUP and five local campus (Alençon, Cherbourg, Lisieux, Saint-Lô and Vire). The University is one of the oldest in France, since it was created in 1432 by Henry VI, King of England. < ...

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