Trouville-sur-Mer

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Trouville-sur-Mer
Commune
Banks of the Touques River
Coat of arms
Location of Trouville-sur-Mer
Trouville-sur-Mer Show map of France Trouville-sur-Mer Show map of Normandy
Coordinates: 49°22′06″N 0°04′57″E / 49.3683°N 0.0825°E / 49.3683; 0.0825
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Lisieux
Canton	Honfleur-Deauville
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Sylvie de Gaetano[1]
Area 1	6.79 km2 (2.62 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	4,622
• Density	680/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14715 /14360
Elevation	0–148 m (0–486 ft) (avg. 5 m or 16 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Trouville-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [tʁuvil syʁ mɛʁ] ^ⓘ, literally Trouville on Sea), commonly referred to as Trouville, is a city of 4,603 inhabitants in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Trouville-sur-Mer borders Deauville across the River Touques. This fishing-village on the English Channel became a popular tourist attraction (beach-resort and holiday-destination) in Normandy from the 19th century. Its long sandy beach earned then the nickname of "queen of the beaches" ("Reine des plages") or "most beautiful beach in the world".^[3]

The name of Trouville is frequently associated with the names of the numerous painters that visited it and painted there, especially during the second part of the XIXth century: Claude Monet, Eugène Boudin, Raoul Dufy, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gustave Caillebotte, Fernand Léger, etc.

Trouville remains today a city of leisure and vacation with a casino and numerous festivals, as well as a city of culture (Marcel Proust, Marguerite Duras, Raymond Savignac, etc.). Numerous celebrities own vacation homes in the city: Gérard Depardieu, Antoine de Caunes, Bettina Rheims, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Karl Zéro, etc.

Close to Paris and easily accessible by train, Trouville (as well as neighbouring Deauville) earned the nickname of 21st "Arrondissements of Paris".

Gallery

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  Eugène Boudin, The Beach at Trouville, 1865, Princeton University Art Museum
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  Eugène Boudin, The Beach at Trouville (Trouville, La Plage), Brooklyn Museum

Population

The town's inhabitants are called Trouvillais in French.

International relations

Trouville-sur-Mer is twinned with:

• Barnstaple, United Kingdom^[6]
• Vrchlabí, Czech Republic

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Trouville-sur-Mer.

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Trouville-sur-Mer.

• Official website of the city of Trouville
• Short history of this surprising town with pictures

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