This article describes the French community of
Glos . For the Bavarian CSU politician see
Michael Glos .
Glos is a French municipality with 924 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) of the department of Calvados in the region of Normandy . Administratively, it is assigned to the canton of Lisieux (until 2015: canton of Lisieux-1 ) and the arrondissement of Lisieux . The inhabitants are called Glosiens .
geography
Glos is located about 47 kilometers east-southeast of Caen and about four kilometers southeast of the city center of Lisieux in the Pays d'Auge landscape on the Orbiquet . Glos is surrounded by the neighboring municipalities of Hermival-les-Vaux in the north, Firfol in the northeast, Courtonne-la-Meurdrac in the east, Le Mesnil-Guillaume in the south and southeast, Saint-Jean-de-Livet in the southwest, and Saint-Martin-de -la-Lieue in the west and south-west, Beuvillers in the west and Lisieux in the north-west.
Population development
| year
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1962 |
1968 |
1975 |
1982 |
1990 |
1999 |
2006 |
2013
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| Residents
|
848 |
780 |
767 |
783 |
857 |
909 |
899 |
919
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| Source: Cassini and INSEE
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Attractions
- Saint-Sylvain church
- Old Notre-Dame church in Villers-sur-Glos
- Villers Castle (also: Grosmesnil Castle)
- La Brairie mansion from the 15th century, a historical monument since 2005
- La Quesse mansion from the 16th century, a historic monument since 1927
- Bray mansion from the 16th century, monument historique since 1928
- Colandon mansion from the 18th century, a historic monument since 1971
- La Motte mansion
- La Vallée mansion
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