In the area around CozPors bay, you can see many unusually-shaped pink granite rocks. Have you seen the white statue standing on top of the granite rock formations above the Marine Aquarium? Dubbed "Jésus sauveur du monde" (Jesus, saviour of the world) when it was built in 1869, it has since been nicknamed "Le Père Éternel" (the Eternal Father). Painted white, this statue served as a seamark for sailors.
The Toëno area, which shows evidence of the granite extraction work of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is also a marshland of outstanding ecological value. If you visit at low tide, you will...
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Located in Penvern, the Notre-Dame de Cîteaux Chapel, among the oldest in the area, is worth the detour for the magnificent altarpiece which it houses. Its paintings and sculptures are a superb...
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This large, traditional "lavoir" – an open-air pool or basin set aside for clothes to be washed – is located on Île Grande and dates from the nineteenth century. Two sources supply it and can be...
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Several hundreds of millions of years old, granite is timeless. Even now, its high quality makes it a material of choice for many uses. The marine bears testament to this: its wall was built from...
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