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Brittany (English: /ˈbrɪti/; French: Bretagne French: [bʁətaɲ]; Breton: Breizh, Breton: [bʁɛjs] or Breton: [bʁɛx]; Gallo: Bertaèyn ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation. It became an independent kingdom and then a duchy before being united with the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province governed as a separate nation under the crown. Brittany has also…

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Belle Île
Belle Île
Le Palais
Belle-Île, Belle-Île-en-Mer, or Belle Isle (Breton: Ar Gerveur, Breton: [arˌɡɛrˈvøːr]; Breton: Guedel) is a French island off the coast of Brittany in the département of Morbihan, and the largest of Brittany's islands. It is from the Quiberon peninsula. Administratively, the island is divided into four communes: • Bangor • Le Palais • Locmaria • Sauzon Belle-Île formed a canton until 2015 when it was merged into the canton of Quiberon as part of a general overhaul. Geography The island measure…
wikipedia/Belle_Île
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Pointe du Raz
Pointe du Raz
Trouguer
The Pointe du Raz is a promontory that extends into the Atlantic from western Brittany, in France. The local Breton name is Beg ar Raz. It is the western point of the commune of Plogoff, Finistère. It is named after the Raz de Sein, the dangerous stretch of water between it and the island of Sein (Enez Sun in Breton). It is a dramatic place of crashing waves and strong winds. The word raz was borrowed from Norman by the Bretons and shares the same etymology as the English word race, "strong cu…
wikipedia/Pointe_du_Raz
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Gulf of Morbihan
Gulf of Morbihan
Le Greaveau
The Gulf of Morbihan (French: golfe du Morbihan, French: [ɡɔlf dy mɔʁbiɑ̃]; Breton: Mor Bihan Gwened) is a natural harbour on the coast of the department of Morbihan in southern Brittany, France. Its English name is taken from the French version, le golfe du Morbihan, though it would be more precisely called 'the Morbihan' as its Breton name 'Ar Mor Bihan' means 'the little sea'. (Compare the Welsh y môr bychan), as opposed to the Atlantic Ocean outside, (Ar Mor Bras). Legend says that there are…
wikipedia/Gulf_of_Morbihan
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Carnac stones
Carnac stones
Carnac
The Carnac stones (Breton: Steudadoù Karnag) are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites near the south coast of Brittany in northwestern France, consisting of stone alignments (rows), dolmens (stone tombs), tumuli (burial mounds) and single menhirs (standing stones). More than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones were hewn from local granite and erected by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany and form the largest such collection in the world. Most of the stones are within the Breton mun…
wikipedia/Carnac_stones
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Île Vierge
Île Vierge
Kervenny
Île Vierge (Breton language: Enez-Werc'h) is a islet lying off the north-west coast of Brittany, opposite the village of Lilia. It is in the commune of Plouguerneau, in the département of Finistère. It is the location of the tallest stone lighthouse in Europe, and the tallest "traditional lighthouse" in the world. The International Hydrographic Organization specifies Île Vierge as marking the south-western limit of the English Channel. History About 1450, the Conventual Franciscans establish…
wikipedia/Île_Vierge
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Red sun - Penmarc'H
Red sun - Penmarc'H
Pointe de la Torche (Breton: Beg an Dorchenn) is a promontory located at the southeastern end of the Baie d'Audierne in the commune of Plomeur in the Bigouden region of Finistère, France. It is an officially recognised natural site and at the top of the promontory is a prehistoric settlement and burial site that is registered as a historic monument. Geography Pointe de la Torche is a rocky granite outcropping; one prominent boulder near the end is called le rocher du corbeau (crow rock or raven …
wikipedia/Pointe_de_la_Torche
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Nantes-Brest canal
Nantes-Brest canal
Châteaulin
The Nantes–Brest canal (French: Canal de Nantes à Brest, French: [kanal də nɑ̃t a bʁɛst]; Breton: Kanol Naoned-Brest) is a French canal which links the two seaports of Nantes and Brest through inland Brittany. It was built in the early 19th century, and its total length as built was 385 km with 238 locks. History Brittany started developing its waterway network in 1538 when it decided to improve navigation on the River Vilaine. The project for a canal throughout the province was conceived by an …
wikipedia/Nantes–Brest_canal
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Tour des Anglais
Tour des Anglais
The Château de Suscinio or de Susinio is a Breton castle, built in the late Middle Ages, to be the residence of the Dukes of Brittany. It is located in the commune of Sarzeau in the département of Morbihan, near the coast of the Atlantic ocean. The spectacular site comprises the moated castle, a ruined chapel, a dovecote, and a few ruined outbuildings. History Designed to be a place of leisure, between the seaside and a forest full of game for hunting, the castle's first logis seigneurial (seig…
wikipedia/Château_de_Suscinio
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Saint-Goustan
Saint-Goustan
Auray
The French port of Saint-Goustan is a former fishing port and trading centre situated beside the river Auray (or river Loc'h.) In modern times it has become one of the quarters of the commune of Auray in the department of Morbihan in Brittany. The port is named after Saint Goustan, the patron saint of sailors and fishermen. History In the early 17th century, the town of Auray decided to build a port on the left bank of the Loc'h. Quays and ramps were constructed to allow for the unloading of tra…
wikipedia/Saint-Goustan
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Vieilles Charrues Festival
Vieilles Charrues Festiv…
Carhaix-Plouguer
The Vieilles Charrues Festival (French: Festival des Vieilles Charrues, French: [fɛstival de vjɛj ʃaʁy]; Breton: Gouel an Erer Kozh, Breton: [ˈɡweːlãn erɛr kos]; literally: Old Ploughs Festival) is held every year in mid-July in the city of Carhaix, located in western Brittany, France. This festival is the largest music festival in France, attracting more than 200,000 festival-goers every year (270,000 in 2011, 280,000 in 2017). This festival was created in 1992 in Landeleau, a small village in …
wikipedia/Vieilles_Charrues_Festival
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Josselin Castle
Josselin Castle
Josselin
Josselin Castle (French: Château de Josselin, Breton: Kastell Josilin, Latin: Castellum Joscelini) is a medieval castle at Josselin, in the Morbihan department of Brittany, France, first built in 1008 by Guéthénoc, viscount of Porhoët. The town and castle were named after Guéthénoc's son, Goscelinus, and rebuilt at various times since. The current castle was built by Olivier V de Clisson after 1370. He had acquired the land as part of the dowry on his marriage to Margaret of Rohan. It has been d…
wikipedia/Josselin_Castle
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Château de Fougères
Château de Fougères
The Botanical garden of Upper Brittany (French: ) is a private estate with an area of , located in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany, near the medieval city of Fougères. The park is part of the estate of La Foltière, where stands the Château de la Foltière, and was built in 1847. Location The Botanical garden of Upper Brittany is located on the village of Le Châtellier (Ille-et-Vilaine), approximately from the city of Fougères, between Rennes and the Mont Saint-Michel, near the A84 mo…
wikipedia/Botanical_garden_of_Upper_Brittany
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Paimpont
Paimpont
Paimpont Forest (French: Forêt de Paimpont, Breton: Koad Pempont), also known as Brocéliande Forest (French: Forêt de Brocéliande), is a temperate forest located around the village of Paimpont in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine in Brittany, France. Covering an area of 9,000 hectares, it is part of a larger forest area that covers the neighboring departments of Morbihan and Côtes-d'Armor. It contains the castles Château de Comper and Château de Trécesson as well as the Forges of Paimpont, a nat…
wikipedia/Paimpont_forest
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Tour Tanguy
Tour Tanguy
The Château de Brest (Breton: Kastell Brest) is a castle in Brest, Finistère, France. The oldest monument in the town, it is located at the mouth of the river Penfeld at the heart of the roadstead of Brest, one of the largest roadsteads in the world. From the Roman castellum to Vauban's citadel, the site has over 1700 years of history, holding right up to the present day its original role as a military fortress and a strategic location of the highest importance. It is thus the oldest castle i…
wikipedia/Château_de_Brest
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Le phare du Créac'h du de Porz Doun (Lighthouse)
Le phare du Créac'h du d…
La Jument ("the mare") is a lighthouse in Brittany, Northwestern France. The lighthouse is built on a rock (that is also called La Jument) about 300 metres from the coast of the island of Ushant. There is also a very different lighthouse about 3 kilometres to the North, the Nividic lighthouse. Together with the Kreac'h lighthouse, they are the three most famous lighthouses of the region. It was listed as a historic monument in 2017. History This section of the coastline of Brittany, the west coa…
wikipedia/La_Jument
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Fort National
Fort National
Saint-Malo
Fort National is a fort on a tidal island a few hundred metres off the walled city of Saint-Malo. The great military architect Vauban had it built in 1689 to protect Saint-Malo's port. The fort was originally called Fort Royal. In 1789 the fort's name became Fort d'Îlette or Républicain, then Fort Impérial and, after 1870, Fort National. History Origins The fort stands on l'Îlette rock. This was originally the site of a beacon that was lit at night to act as a lighthouse. Îlette was also a plac…
wikipedia/Fort_National
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u-turn in the rock / Ellèouet / France
u-turn in the rock / El…
The Baie de Douarnenez (French: [bɛ də dwaʁnəne]; Breton: Bae Douarnenez) is a bay in Finistère, France, between the Crozon Peninsula to the north and the Cap Sizun to the south. It is a vast semi-circular basin over wide and from its entrance to the opposite shore. Although half closed off to the west by Cap de la Chèvre, it opens out again to a width of on the side of the Mer d'Iroise. To the south-east is the port of Douarnenez, which was the center of a large sardine industry in the early…
wikipedia/Baie_de_Douarnenez
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Le point de vue du fort du dellec.
Le point de vue du fort …
Télécom Bretagne (formerly known as ENST Bretagne) was a French grande école of engineering, and a research centre providing training in information technologies and telecommunications. In 2017, it merged with École des mines de Nantes to form IMT Atlantique. As a member of the Institut Mines-Télécom, it had three campuses: • Plouzané, in the Technopôle Brest-Iroise, near Brest (France); • Campus de Beaulieu, in Rennes (France); • SUPAERO campus, in Toulouse (France). Télécom Bretagne had been t…
wikipedia/École_nationale_supérieure_des_télécommunications_de_Bretagne
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Retour au port
Retour au port
Point Penmarc'h, often spelled Point Penmarch, or in French Pointe de Penmarc'h, is the extremity of a small peninsula in Finistère department in Brittany in northwestern France, and the northern limit of the Bay of Biscay. It contains the fortified remains of a town which was of considerable importance from the 14th to the 16th centuries, and included today's commune of Penmarc'h, which covers the harbours of Saint-Guénolé and Kerity. The town owed its prosperity to its cod-banks, the disappear…
wikipedia/Point_Penmarc'h
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Notre-Dame de Kerdro
Notre-Dame de Kerdro
Quiberon Bay (French: Baie de Quiberon) is an area of sheltered water on the south coast of Brittany. The bay is in the Morbihan département. Geography The bay is roughly triangular in shape, open to the south with the Gulf of Morbihan to the north-east and the narrow peninsula of Presqu'île de Quiberon providing protection from the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The islands of Belle-Île, Houat and Hœdic add to the bay's protection. There are many dangerous shoals at the entrance to the bay. Histor…
wikipedia/Quiberon_Bay
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Château de Dinan
Château de Dinan
Dinan
The Château de Dinan consists of a keep, in the town of Dinan, in the Côtes-d'Armor département of the Brittany region of France. The keep and the gate are part of the of medieval ramparts which still surround the old town. It is called Donjon de la duchesse Anne (Keep of the Duchess Anne), and stands 111 feet (34m) high near the Saint Louis gate. John V, Duke of Brittany built the keep in 1382–1383. The keep is formed by a union of two tall circular towers; a moat and drawbridge divides the k…
wikipedia/Château_de_Dinan
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Douarnenez Bay
Douarnenez Bay
Tristan Island or the Île Tristan is located at the mouth of the Pouldavid Estuary off the French port of Douarnenez in south-western Brittany. It is only about 450 m long and 250 m wide but despite its small size, it has a rich history. It is closely associated with Breton legends and the lost island of Ys. In the Middle Ages a priory was built there and the island was inhabited through much of the 20th century. In the 19th century, it became famous as the site of the first canning factory for …
wikipedia/Tristan_Island
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22 mai 2008 Vitré Château des barons de Vitré - Mairie (7)
22 mai 2008 Vitré Châtea…
The Château de Vitré is a medieval castle in the town of Vitré, in the Ille-et-Vilaine département of France. The first castle in Vitré was built of wood on a feudal motte around the year 1000 on the Sainte-Croix hill. The castle was burned down on several occasions, and eventually was bequeathed to the Benedictine monks of Marmoutier Abbey. The first stone castle was built by the baron Robert I of Vitré at the end of the 11th century. The defensive site chosen, a rocky promontory, dominated …
wikipedia/Château_de_Vitré
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Le Yaudet
Le Yaudet
The Château de Tonquédec is a castle in the commune of Tonquédec in the Côtes d'Armor département of France. It is one of the most visited monuments in the Côtes d'Armor. One of the most impressive French medieval sites, this château-fort, stands in a pleasant green forested countryside about south of Lannion. The present castle was built in the 15th century, on the site of an earlier 12th-century castle. History From the height of a rocky cliff, the castle ruins, with its eleven towers and a c…
wikipedia/Château_de_Tonquédec
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