To the 19èmth century, many Caennaises make their walk dominicale on beaches of Lion-on-sea in order to admire the beauty of landscapes. The fashion of baths is going to transform this sea resort in " small America ", one constructs beautiful Villas there in side of sea to take a rest and to relax.
Today, Lion-sur-mer stays a beach of tradition where children play with the thin sand. Bathings are supervised since the emergency station where temperatures of air and water you are given there. Edged of a reserved dam to pedestrians and bicyclists, it invites you to pleasant walks in all season. You will breathe of its air iodized beneficent, tonic and regenerating.

You will discover pleasures of the sea and its low tides permitting the practice of the fishing on foot and you will be able to collect shellfish and crustaceans on rocks of Lion-on-sea. Will the full sea tempt you it to fish to the line since the dam or will you satisfy yourselves to look at fishers to work? Of its hold to fishers, put your boat to water and leave to fish bends it, the sole or the mackerel.
To the extremity of these rocks you will find the Cliff to Confessionals. Why this name? Assaults repeated of the sea on the cliff form cavities, from where this name of " confessionals ". amateurs of fossils will find maybe, on this recognized geological and paleontological site universally, the archaeological vestige trace going up again, why not, to the period of the superior Bathénien (-165 millions of years). in any case, the House of the Fossil will be able to help you to situate them.

Ideal to get some fresh air, the activities veil offers a large fan of possibilities. Embark on your dériveur, your catamaran, your windsurfing or again your speed-sail. Benefit the sand and wind to manipulate your chariot to veil or your kite. That they are sporty or domestic, that they exercise themselves only or to several, that they take place on water or close to water, the activities veil is multiple and varied. If you doubt your talents, the center nautical labellised School French of Veil will initiate you or will perfect you in the practice of these activities in all security.

All began in 1992 with the " Musical " Terraces that proposed a regional, national and international programming in domains of music, the dance, the theater and the spectacle of street.
Today, the musical animations took the name of " Pose your suitcases ", of " Terraces of the summer ". markets of night of the Thursday on the dam, the lounge of the old and modern book, the lounge of the antique and the brocante, the animations beach for children, the exhibition of motorcycles autos of previously, the Norman festival, the fires of artifice, hikes and the footing; the merry-go-round of the dam, braderieses, lounges of contemporary art, perpetuate this effort of dynamisation cultural of the township as offering to all and all, tourists and Lionnaises, whatever is their age, of animations all more enrichissanteses the some that others.

Shared between houses of fishers, situated between the church and the sea, to the traditional architecture where goulottes in stone of the 17èmth and marine graffiti of the 17èmth on a porch of entrance of a farm body are there always visible, and beautiful villas, on the side of sea where The Villa Henriette, The Big Hotel, The Thames, The Sorbierses, The Chalet Henri, The Horde and well of others, recall you the beautiful time of the beginning of the 19èmth century, the heritage of Lion-on-sea won't stop surprising you. The castle of Lion, old strong castle, was rebuilt to the 16èmth century, the Saint Peter church constructed to different times presents a varied architectural whole between its tower of the 11èmth and /its heart of the 14èmth, the Protestant Temple dates 1903 and was erected for the small colony of academic and of Protestant bankers staying to Lion-on-sea, are as many own places to the jaunt.