Vaux-sur-Aure | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason Vaux-sur-Aure.svg |
Arrondissement: | Bayeux |
Canton: | Bayeux |
Insee: | 14732 |
Postal Code: | 14400 |
Mayor: | Benoît Demoulins[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | Bayeux Intercom |
Coordinates: | 49.3031°N -0.7008°W |
Elevation M: | 33 |
Elevation Min M: | 19 |
Elevation Max M: | 58 |
Area Km2: | 7.60 |
Vaux-sur-Aure (in French pronounced as /vo syʁ oʁ/, literally Vaux on Aure) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
The Barons de Gratot (Argouges) resided at the Château de Gratot in Vaux-sur-Aure. According to the French Wikipedia a legend is that a Lord of Argouges met a Fairy woman who agreed to be his wife provided he never spoke the word "Mort" [death] which was considered profane language; however he spoke it and the Fairy vanished; this legend is associated with both Château de Gratot and the Château de Argouges at Argouges.[2]
Vaux-sur-Aure has international relations with the city of Nagasaki, Japan, since 2005. It was a sister city of Sotome, now a subdivision of Nagasaki, since 1978.[3]