From the beach at Tourony, you can admire a beautiful view of the Château de Costaérès. This imposing neo-medieval style villa dates from the end of the nineteenth century. It was built by a rich Polish engineer who made it his holiday retreat after purchasing the island on which it sits. Next take a look at Ploumanac’h Port. Here you will find two tidal mills typical of the area.
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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This park is dedicated to the memory of two quarrymen and displays granite used in an unusual way. This noble material, the basis for unique poetic landscapes, has inspired many artists over the...
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The guardhouse, TyGward in Breton, is an imposing block of granite which stands at the highest point of Île Grande. Right around the periphery of the island, grey and blue granite was mined for...
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A menhir 7.40 m high and 2 m wide stands in Saint-Uzec. Imagine our Neolithic ancestors transporting this huge block of granite weighing 60 tonnes! These megaliths probably fulfilled a religious...
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