Mont Pinçon

Mont Pinçon
Mont Pinçon Location in France
Highest point
Elevation	362 m (1,188 ft)
Coordinates	48°58′17″N 00°37′36″W / 48.97139°N 0.62667°W / 48.97139; -0.62667Coordinates: 48°58′17″N 00°37′36″W / 48.97139°N 0.62667°W / 48.97139; -0.62667
Geography
Location	Calvados, Normandy, France
Parent range	Armorican Massif

Mont Pinçon is the highest point of the department of Calvados, in Normandy, with an elevation of 362 metres (1,188 ft). It is in the west of Norman Switzerland about 30 kilometres (20 mi) 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 (RTF, now TDF) installed a tranmitter pylon over 200 metres (660 ft) high, which still serves most of the Basse-Normandie region.