Monuments to visit Piriac-Sur-Mer

Feel free to walk through the piriacaises streets to admire the old granite houses, flowered by hydrangeas and hollyhocks. The narrow and winding streets stretch out their arms, some of them will offer you the sea as a backdrop. Venture in the footsteps of the famous writers who came to stay in Piriac. Several houses in the port belong to the family of the writer Alphonse de Châteaubriant and date back to the 17th century. The large house, reminiscent of the Flemish style, received the writer regularly until the last war. Castel Rado (2, rue Neuve) was built in 1626 and has a beautiful stone staircase, dormers and an original roof. At the entrance to the alleyway of the Sourd, one of the oldest houses in Piriac, dating from 1640, can be seen on the left

One of the few known bifaces wayside (th century), representing on one side the Crucifixion and the other the Visitation. Pen ar ran means in Breton state point.

Its construction dates back to 1690. This massive building has walls of a metre thick and a stone vault doubles the slate cover. It is one of the three Garde guard bodies to shelter the coastguard militia. He was part of the harbour of the coastguards whose authority stretched from the Croisic to La Roche-Bernard.

A former fortified manor house of the 1826 th century, which only remains monumental after its destruction in. He was the property of the Tournemine and the Protestant wedding of Peter de Tournemine and Mary de Kermarec were celebrated there.

From the th century, it retained only its doorway of ogival form. It served as a place of worship for Protestants in the sixteenth century because Piriac was with Careil and Le Croisic a stronghold of Protestantism.