Sizun Travel Guide

 ranger49 Says:  We first came across the English Dallam Family of organ builders in the Cathedral at St Pol -de-Léon a couple of years ago where the organ was built by Thomas Dallam. On this most recent trip we discovered the nearest village church to where we were staying in Crozon had an... 

 ranger49 Says:  This interesting, and rather elegant building, may be the Sacristy but there was nothing to identify it as such in our guide leaflet.The plain and austere War Memorial, standing directly in front of both the Arch and the Porch is seen in Picture 2.Yew trees seem to be a... 

 ranger49 Says:  I thought this granite sculpture which - according to something we later read in th Museum - dates from the 15th century, was one of the most beautiful things we saw in Sizun. It seemed to combine the simplicity of mediaeval art with a much more modern expression of its... 

 ranger49 Says:  Rather a forbidding history for a very beautiful building. This is the place to which, in ancient times, the remains of people removed from graves to make room for new burials were brought. More recently it served as the final resting place of the dead before burial. There... 

 ranger49 Says:  The museum, housed in the old Ossuary, is more to do with a celebration of Breton life with baby's cribs, lace Christening gowns and tiny shoes. With models in traditional costume, an example of an old cottagers bed and household domestic and agricultural tools it is crammed... 

 ranger49 Says:  Once a year a festival of Breton life , dance and music takes place in the main street. There are dancers in Breton costumes, traditional music and an open air dance for everyone to join in. The days events are rounded off by a grand firework display.Catch it if you can - we... 

 ranger49 Says:  The art of the glassmaker makes an important contribution to the beauty of so many churches - as here - and I was surprised that there was no reference in the leaflet to the who, how and when of these windows. 

 ranger49 Says:  When entering the Church the first thing that impresses is the beautiful effect of light and colour. After the dark stone of the Calvary figures on top of the Arch, and the weird symbolism of the almost mediaeval stone and granite iconography that decorates the exterior, the... 

 ranger49 Says:  The 16th Century, and later, Parish Closes of Brittany, and particularly of Finistere, are renowned. The granite built walls with elaborate, triumphal arches and Calvaries seem to have been erected as an outward sign of the prosperity the area enjoyed in the period when... 

 ranger49 Says:  The unusal octagonal spire stands slightly off-centre on the Tower and is one of the last examples its kind dating from 1728 -1735.The porch is decorated with fine stone carvings and bears the. inscription 1514