Amayé-sur-Orne

Amayé-sur-Orne ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}, literally Amayé on Orne) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of northwestern France.

Geography

Amayé-sur-Orne is located approximately 10 km south-west of Caen and 5 km east of Évrecy. It can be accessed by road D212 from Vieux in the north which continues south to Thury-Harcourt and by road D41 from Evrecy in the west which continues to Clinchamps-sur-Orne in the east. Closely located to the town are a number of hamlets including: Saint-Lambert, La Butte, Le Pont du Coudray, and Les Godets. These villages form a single conurbation with the village. The rest of the commune is entirely farmland.<ref name=Google>Google Maps</ref>

The eastern border of the commune is formed by the Orne river. A stream, flows through the village and down to the Orne and another stream flowing to the Orne forms the southern boundary of the commune. The Guigne stream forms the northern border of the commune and also flows to the Orne.<ref name=Google/>

Administration

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A Walking Path in Spring

{{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B=Template:AmboxTemplate:Main other }} List of Successive Mayors of Amayé-sur-Orne<ref>List of Mayors of France Template:In lang</ref>

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1987	1994	Jacques Dolley	ind.	Professor
1994	2001	André Porcher	ind.	CEO
2001	2008	Nicole Perly	ind.
2008	2026	Sylvain Colino	ind.	Fire-fighter

Population

Its inhabitants are known as Amayéens or Amayéennes in French.<ref>Le nom des habitants du 14 - Calvados, habitants.fr</ref>

Sites and Monuments

File:Amayé-sur-Orne War mémorial.JPG

The War Memorial

• The Ifs Cemetery is a listed site (SC 9 January 1933)<ref>DREAL Basse-Normandie Template:In lang</ref>
• The 'Butte de l'Orne is another World Heritage Site (SC 9 January 1933)
• A Lavoir (Public laundry)
• The Chateau de la Butte (19th century)
• The Chateau de Vaux (18th century)

The Bell Tower Attic of the Church of Notre Dame hosts breeding colonies of large bats and is a registered Site of Community Importance (SIC)<ref name=n2000>Site of Community Importance (SIC) - Attic of the church of Amayé-sur-OrneTemplate:Dead link, Ministry of Ecology and sustainable development Template:In lang</ref>

Gallery

• A yew tree in the cemetery
  A yew tree in the cemetery
• The Lavoir
  The Lavoir
• The Church of Notre-Dame
  The Church of Notre-Dame
• Church of Notre Dame bell tower
  Church of Notre Dame bell tower
• Greater mouse-eared bat
  Greater mouse-eared bat

Twin towns – sister cities

Template:See also Amayé-sur-Orne, along with eight other communes, Avenay, Maizet, Montigny, Préaux-Bocage, Maisoncelles-sur-Ajon, Sainte-Honorine-du-Fay, Vacognes-Neuilly and Montillières-sur-Orne, is a member of The ICL Val Orne, which has organised being twinned with:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>National Commission for Decentralised cooperation Template:In lang</ref>

• Template:Flagicon Johannesberg, Bavaria since 1991

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department

External links

• Amayé-sur-Orne on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website Template:In lang
• Amayé-sur-Orne on the 1750 Cassini Map