Monuments to visit Brittany

Since 1996, the Compagnie du Théâtre de l'Interchange resides. She gives her creations, but also courses and courses. See for the beauty of the site, which also welcomes the feast of bread and autumn feast, every year. The site also hosts the Festival de la Key des Champs organised by the Théâtre de l'Interchange and the course of Art Path making… from Atelier d'Estienne.

Landerneau has several beautiful houses, symbols of its rich past:

The Maison de la Duchesse Anne, place du Marché, is easy to find. After hosting the offices of the Tourist Office, she received a full renovation. It will offer a tea room on the ground floor, as well as a museum on the first floor (remaining floors remaining private). Dated in 1664, this beautiful residence has a series of glass windows that occupy a large part of the northern pignon. On the façade, a statue of the Risen Christ is inserted into a niche.

La Maison de Notre-Dame-de-Rumengol, at 3 St-Thomas Street, attracts a look. His name recalls the passage of pilgrims who went to Rumengol, a few kilometers away, and gathered in front of the statue of Notre Dame. This house has undergone few changes since its construction. The wedding of the pink stones of the Aber Ildut and the yellow stones of Logonna give it a unique aspect.

Re-opened to the public after several campaigns of archaeological excavations, the site of Roc'h Morvan Castle is really worth a look. Located on a rocky promontory, it overlooks the Elorn valley at a height of more than 70 m. An interpretive tour offers you the opportunity to learn more about the ruins of the castle while walking around. We follow with curiosity the singular history of this imposing fortress while discovering its defensive and spatial organization. An ideal walk to do with the children.

This cable-stayed bridge is remarkable for its architectural quality. Built between 1833 and 1840, its original purpose was to replace the ferries linking the two banks of the Trieux. This first wooden deck was replaced in 1925 by a more modern and safer metal suspension bridge, according to the plans of the French engineer Gaston Leinekugel Le Cocq. Traffic was not even interrupted: the new deck was built under the old one, which was dismantled once the work was completed. The current structure is 154 metres long.

Hotel des Ducs de Bretagne, also called Maison du Chapeau Rouge (1572) is located around the Louis Guilloux square. This former Renaissance inn has fireproof walls and half-timbered sculptures in friezes: lion heads, helmeted reiters, ovum and gadroons. You can see a griffin, animal from Antiquity (half eagle-half lion) which has become the emblem of the town of Saint-Brieuc, it watches over the street and protects the inhabitants. According to legend, it is said to have housed famous and royal travellers, like Jacques II Stuart in 1689 or the great duke and the great duchess of Russia, in 1782. It is a private property.

The Rosédo Lighthouse is set on the Rosédo land, north of the Bréhat Island. Historically, its alignment with its twin the lighthouse of the Peacock, enabled sailors to avoid the Horaine pitfall, located off the Paon tip! You will also find in this place a semaphore dating back to 1862. The first Rosédo lighthouse was built in 1858 and lit in 1860 as a fixed red light; the current lighthouse was built between 1947 and 1949. It consists of a rectangular turret with a round face; it was automated in 2007.

Located in the immediate vicinity of the chapel, the Notre-Dame fountain is built of stone and surmounted by a star and a heart. The fountain also houses a statue of the Virgin Mary. Listed as a Historic Monument since 1933, you can access its pool by going down a few steps. Until the Second World War, the Notre-Dame Fountain provided the inhabitants of the district with drinking water and was also used to water livestock.

A ceramic plaque created to commemorate the sardine activity of Larmor-Plage, the Pointe des jagueurs was the meeting place for many people throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. The inhabitants of the city found themselves there, whether they were fish merchants or fishermen and even some tourists! Today, there is a mooring place for passing sardine boats, allowing the drying of nets.

Goz-Korle in Breton, the ancient site of Corlay, made up of Numerous hamlets. In the village there is the oldest monument armoricain, the mound at the Coulombs, which symbolized the boundary between the gauloises tribes. See also the typical church of the th century, high on the basis of construction of the th century, the chapel of the Cross and its th century polychrome altarpiece, as well as the manor of Botcozel. The top of Kerchouan marks the dividing line between the Channel and the Atlantic Ocean.

It was in the 17th century that its construction was decided and built. It is therefore one of the oldest French lighthouses still in service. But it was no longer enough to mark the entrance to the English Channel: a semaphore is now watching, about 100 metres lower, accompanied by a more effective radar. You can climb the 104 steps of the Stiff lighthouse to enjoy a breathtaking view of the island! Like five other lighthouses in Finistère, it has been classified as a Historic Monument since 2010. Namely: Stiff Bay is the main place to live, after Lampaul. It lives at the rhythm of the arrivals of boats making the connections with the continent and of the few fishing and material transport boats.

This rather surprising building in the Damgan landscape has had many adventures with its inscription on the Inventory of Historic Monuments, which finally took place on 22 October 1977. It is assumed that the tower was built during the reign of Francis I between 1442 and 1450 to protect the coasts from the English invader. She changed her name several times, calling herself "in turn" white and then Pénerf.

Two washhouses surround the village of Rochefort-en-Terre. One (rue de l'Étang) is supplied by the brook of the Etang du Moulin-Neuf. Every summer evening, at nightfall, light paths give this washhouse a very special lighting. Next to this communal washhouse, you can see another small washhouse which is private. As for the second one, it is located at the bottom of the Old Town, near the GR38 passage.

Built in 1683 to replace the medieval halls, Presidial is one of the few judicial monuments in the region. At that time, the first floor was devoted to the court and the seat of the municipality while the ground floor was occupied by hawkers. The halls were destroyed in 1829 and the only surviving remnant of the original building is the magnificent staircase with converging stairs and baluster ramps. Today, Presidial with a reduced surface annually hosts contemporary art exhibitions of various artistic practices (painting, sculpture, photos ...)

This old house is one of the only ones in the city to have three sides of wood panelling. It dates from the 15th century and is located in the oldest street in the city, the Rue du Jerzual. The Governor's house is a beautiful mansion in which merchants and craftsmen lived upstairs, above their stores. Classified as a historical monument, this house was used as a warehouse and a place of sale with shops on the first floor. The Governor's house is to be discovered in summer along with temporary exhibitions of quality.

Lit in 1700, it is one of the oldest French lighthouses still in service. But it is not enough to mark the Channel entrance: a semaphore watches, one hundred meters lower, and above all a radar écrase its height, with an efficiency that is much better suspected. Its installation follows the shipwreck of Amoco Cadiz (1978). Stiff Bay is the main place of life, after Lampaul. She lives at the rate of boat arrivals carrying out connections with the mainland, and some fishing boats and materials transport.

Renovated, it was built between 1633 and 1638. This mill is considered one of the finest in Brittany. In 1916, he stopped pouring his 25 tons of annual flour. Today we have black wheat piling up.