Travel Guide Miniac-Morvan

Miniac-Morvan ("minihy": Monks'Refuge and "Mor Wan": Sea men in old Breton) is a small city of the year 1150, former Gallo-Roman primitive parish, real lair of sailors for malouins boats (small and large fishing, tour trips, races, trafficking in black…). Today, this very extensive commune (3 103 ha per 3 472 inhabitants at the last census), preserved its past a 1574 th century church, built by architect Alfred-Louis Frageul and in which one can discover an altar and a carved wooden altarpiece of the th century, a bell dating back to the arms of the family Rieux lords of Châteauneuf and a painting of th century. representing the sisters of charity; the remains of the old church of the Old Hamlet (th and th centuries) as well as a large number of castles, manor houses and chapels, and other megalithic monuments («the aisle covered in the oven»)… Blessed Thérèse Madeleine Fantou (1741-1794), religious rock in Arras, or Jeanne Jugan (of his true name Jouquan), founder of the small sisters of the poor, born in Cancale, whose grandfather was native to Miniac-Morvan, are, among many others, famous characters of Miniac-Morvan.