Ifs, Calvados

For other uses of "Ifs", see IFS (disambiguation).

Ifs (French pronunciation: [if] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Ifs
Commune
Town Hall
Location of Ifs
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Coordinates: 49°08′20″N 0°21′07″W
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Caen
Canton	Ifs
Intercommunality	Caen la Mer
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Michel Patard-Legendre[1]
Area 1	9.06 km2 (3.50 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	11,868
• Density	1,310/km2 (3,390/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14341 /14123
Elevation	19–61 m (62–200 ft) (avg. 50 m or 160 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, La Dronnière and Ifs.^[3]

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	2,681	—
1975	4,574	+7.93%
1982	5,635	+3.02%
1990	6,974	+2.70%
1999	9,208	+3.14%
2007	10,738	+1.94%
2012	11,450	+1.29%
2017	11,766	+0.55%
Source: INSEE[4]

Administration

Mayors of Ifs

From	To	Name	Party
2001	2008	Raymond Slama	PS
2008	2014	Jean-Paul Gauchard	DVG
2014	Current	Michel Patard-Legendre	LR

Points of Interest

• Forêt d'Ifs - A 32 hectare forest containing 40,000 trees.^[5] It also contains a marker showing the geographic centre of Calvados.^[6]

National Heritage sites

The Commune has two buildings and areas listed as a Monument historique^[7]

• Eglise Saint-André twelfth century church listed as a monument in 1946.^[8]
• Saint-Bernard Farm a seventeenth former farmhouse that was purchased by the municipal in 1972 and became the Town hall.^[9] The building was classed as a Monument historique in 1979.^[10]

Twin towns – sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France

Ifs is twinned with:^[11][12]

• Ilfracombe, Devon, England. Since 1991
• Niederwerrn, Germany. Since 1992
• Debar, North Macedonia. Since 2009

Notable people

• Robert Tournières (1668-1752), portrait painter, pupil of Hyacinthe Rigaud was born here.^[13]
• Jean-Pascal Zadi (b. 1980), director, actor and rapper was raised here as a child.^[14]
• Sabine Devieilhe (b. 1985), operatic soprano was born here.^[15]

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department