Mont Pinçon


Mont Pinçon is the highest point of the department of Calvados, in Normandy, with an elevation of. It is in the west of Norman Switzerland about 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. In 1956, Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française installed a transmitter pylon over high, which still serves most of the Basse-Normandie region.