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Carentan (French pronunciation: [kaʁɑ̃tɑ̃]) is a small rural town near the north-eastern base of the French Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy in north-western France, with a population of about 6,000. It is a former commune in the Manche department. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Carentan-les-Marais. [2]
Carentan-les-Marais is located in the middle of vast marsh remediated and transformed into rich meadows, at the confluence of the Taute and the Douve.The city, at the gateway to the Cotentin Peninsula and the Bay of Veys, is at the heart of the Regional Natural Park of the Cotentin and Bessin marshes.
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Brévands ( French pronunciation: [bʁevɑ̃] ) is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in northwestern France .
Angoville-au-Plain (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ɡɔvil o plɛ̃]) is a former commune in the Manche department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Carentan-les-Marais. [2] It is home to a church that was used by 2 US Army Medics as an aide station during the Battle of Normandy ...
The canton of Carentan-les-Marais (before March 2020: canton of Carentan) [3] is an administrative division of the Manche department. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Carentan-les-Marais. [4]
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Les Veys ( French pronunciation: [le vɛ] ) is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France .
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Vierville ( French pronunciation: [vjɛʁvil] ) is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France .
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Sainte-Marie-du-Mont ( French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t maʁi dy mɔ̃] ) is a commune in the Manche department and in the region of Normandy in north-western France . [ 3 ]