Mont Pinçon | |
Elevation M: | 362 |
Label Position: | right |
Location: | Calvados, Normandy, France |
Range: | Armorican Massif |
Map: | France |
Coordinates: | 48.9714°N -0.6267°W |
Mont Pinçon is the highest point of the Department of Calvados, in Normandy, with an elevation of .[1] It is in the west of Norman Switzerland about 30km (20miles) to the south-west of Caen, near the village of Plessis-Grimoult.
It was the site of many strategic battles in the Battle of Normandy with the Allied attack in Operation Bluecoat.[2] In 1956, Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF, now TDF) installed a transmitter pylon over high, which still serves most of the Basse-Normandie region.[3]