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Cartopole - Baud

by gwened

a wonderful little museum on old post cards. up th road from me on the D768 to the picturesque town of Baud just before reaching the N24 (Brest to Rennes road).open from June 15 to September 15, Tuesdays and Sundays from 14h-18h and wednesdays, thursdays ,fridays and saturdays from 10h-12h30 and 14h -18hopen from September 16 to JUne 14, on Tuesdays and thursdays from 13h30 -18hwednesdays from 9h30-12h30 and 13h30 -18hsaturdays from 9h30 -16h admission adults is 5€you have exhibitions going on now from April 13 2013 to April 15 2014 : Le monde maritime en Bretagne (the world of maritime brittany) What is Cartopole, opened in June 1996, as the showroom of the museum of post cards inside a building of a village from the 20C, it is the history of post cards and the traditional Brittany.Actually you see the entire history of Brittany in post cards !!great place. I need to take more photos!!!

arriving main entrance Cartopole
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church of Saint Pierre - Arradon

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it is of gothic style begun in 1885 and finished in 1888. It has inside a painting representing the holy cross or ”Sacré-Coeur de Jésus entouré d’angelots” from the 18C in the south transept, another the deploration of Christ dead or “La Déploration du Christ mort”,dating from 1847 and located in the ambulatory, yet another the virgin taking care of her sons in crucifiction or ”la Vierge tendant son fils aux enfants et une Crucifixion”, located in the baptismal room. The church,also, houses a statue in wood from the 17C of Saint Vincent Ferrier (that visited Arradon in 1419 while evangelising the area coming from Valencia Spain, his body lies in the Cathedral Saint Pierre at Vannes) , also the statues of Saint Pierre and Saint Roch. The clock in the south nave dates from 1895

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Cairn de Gavrinis

by gwened

This is for the summer, but done that and now went by again and finally took a couple of pictures. It is about 25 mins from my house by car. And the reason you got to be here in summe is because the stone or cairn is an island !!! a boat takes you there,and you need reservation. Now is a ghost town. email for reservation and info at gavrinis@sagemor.frand this is the boat company we took and the ticket office has a photo here, http://www.croisieres-golfe-du-morbihan.com/grand-tour-golfe-escale-ile-aux-moines.htmlThe island is call ’île de Gavrinis (lol!) at the heart of the Gulf of Morbihan (UNESCO site::)) and it is a dolmen under a cairn that means covered with dry stones pile up n mount type setting. It is said to have been built around 3600-3700 BC. Its dolmen is made of 29 pillars of which 23 are beautiful decorated with symbols of the Armorique period.

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church of Notre Dame- Larmor Baden

by gwened

this is the town not to be confuse with larmor plage, and this church even if small was created by a townpeople wish and the order of Napoleon IIIIn 1858 while the emperor Napoleon III and emperatrice Eugénie visited Brittany, the people of Larmor ask them to have a parrish church here. On January 11 1860, the imperial decree is signed by emperor Napoleon III.It is a church in the form of a Latin cross. The central glass of the choir has the armes of the count of Dillon and his wife. A near glass represent of Sainte Eugénie. The church has a ex-voto from the 19c-20C that has three boat masts named Stella Maris (star of the seas). You can see two aquarelles from 1878 ,and a gouache (sort of watercolor but not the same) that represent the boat Sainte-Eugénie of Redon,and Giralda of Bordeaux . From 1927-1929, the church houses a half dozen statues such as Saint Anthony of Padua, sainte...

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Church of Stella Maris-Le Bono

by gwened

This is a wonderful church near the limits of Auray and Le Bono, where my kids go to school. It is in a nice area, greens quiet and residential. The church is wonderful.The church was begun in 1956 and finish n 1966!!!! yes about that is new, not the typical one in this area but nice.It is romanesque style, all in stone with altar in bricks and belltower cover in metal. It has nice stained glass and sculpture of the virgen of Notre Dames des Flots, patron of the mariners all done by local artists. Still some old elements kept inside is the small altar from the period of king Louis XII ,and a tympanum semi circular of the Renaissance , as well as a huge painting of Joël Dadin decorating alll the back of the church ( a bit seen on the back photo)

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Notre Dame de la Clarte -Larmor Baden plage

by gwened

wonderful old church near the port harbor of a lovely coastal town of the Morbihan Bretonbuilt from the 6C by mariners, seaman. It is said to have been built by Gildas the sa Wise who came from the isles of Britain.

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Church of St Gurval at Guer

by gwened

the wonderful church of St Gurval, there was a church here since the 9C when it was mentioned of the arrival of St Gurval as ermite in the 7C give its name. The actual church is built from 1807 to 1847,in the form of a Latin cross, with new renovations done in 1870. It is a wonderful church, and when we came in, there were practicing on the organ with beautiful singing voices, should be a nice spectaclethe official church site is herehttp://www.paroissesdeguer.new.fr/

front entrance church St Pierre et St Paul
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Chapelle de Saint Cado

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this is a must to see. Its an island just link to the mainland by a small bridge, very picturesques;very near me in my auray countryhttp://www.auray.org/villes/st-cado.htmlmore info in French aboveA priest who came from Wales and settled in the area spreading the gospel, well it stuck, with British tourists and all today. The calvary was nice as well as the bridge over the harbor to connect to the isle of St Cado around the nice harbor. The story of this isle is as short as this, St Cado was a son of a prince of Glamorgan in Wales, he later was founder and abbey of the grand monastery of Lancarvan (Llancarfan in Great Britain, region of Cambria), Saint Cado came to the armorique area (today Brittany) by between the 5C and 7C. He came to find his compatriots chase by the Saxon invasion and lived on the isle in the ria of Etel that today carry his name. He built an oratory, founds a...

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museum of tuna boats at Etel

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This was a huge tuna fishing port and it has gone down , but the history of fishing is still big here with sardines as well, now they have a museum of tuna boats or thoniers that is wonderfulhours are February 12 to March 11, tuesdays to sundays 14h to 18hClosed MondaysApril 8 to September 30 Tuesdays to Fridays to 10h - 12 h and 14h - 18h , Saturdays and Sundays 14h - 18hclosed Mondays5€ adult admission Now is closed, will need to wait for the winter to be over, and then come back. unfortunately the photos are from now. The museum is here since 2001a bit of history1850 : Etel, town of sardine fishermans.End 19C., crisis in the sardine business, and tuna becomes the main line of business hereIn the 1930's , Etel is the first harbor for the building of tuna boats in France (250 tuna boats, thousands of fisherman and twelves conservation factories).After the war, the city receives a...

entrance to museum of tuna boats ,thoniers
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Church of Saint Thomas, Landerneau

by gwened

The church of Saint Thomas, of Cantorbery was done in the 16C replacing a primitive church from the 13C. The tower was done in 1607, it was pose and raise in 1849. It was the site of many confreries of the old regime or ancien régime, ^keeping inside many statues including one of the Virgen mother sitting and of sainte Anne with the virgen and the enfant Jesus. An ossuary dedicated to saint Cadou, raise in front of the church dating from 1635.

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