Guémené-Penfao

Guémené-Penfao is a common French, located in the department of the Loire-Atlantique and the area Pays of the Loire.

The inhabitants of the commune name the Guémenéens and Guélenéennes .

Geography

History

Origin of the name: of gwenn , white, carry out , hill, PEN , head, faou , beech, into Breton.

Small Brittany

The Country of Guémené-Penfao was for a long time a zone of Breton influence. Thus, one will speak there Breton until the end about the 16th century. On several occasions, the land register of the commune mentions the name of Brésihan , which comes from Breiz-Bihan and which means small Brittany.

The name of Guémené-Penfao thus finds quite naturally its origins in the Breton language. If the name Guémené evolved/moved of many times during the centuries, certain historians agree to say that it would come from Guen Menez , which means white mountain because in particular of the white slopes of Lizien.

The name Penfao comes from PEN-Faou which means the end of the wood of beech. The area counted indeed, formerly many beeches. Penfao was formerly a priory and a festivity of Guémené which were at “the end of a wood of beech”.

A country of legends

The outstanding historical facts were comparatively numerous on the territory during the centuries. For example in 1570, the street of Chateaubriant, could have been called the royal roads, because she saw becoming the king Charles IX accompanied by a brilliance procession including in particular the queen mother Catherine de Médicis, Marguerite de Valois (future woman of Henri IV), the duke of Anjou (future Henri III), and the duke of Own way.

It should however be noted that this country is especially a country of legends, of which not less famous is to it that of the wicked fairy.

" While spending one day the river, the old hag was done badly with the heel. Not being able to even cure itself it, it had recourse to the good care of a “bonesetter” of Redon. But the remedy that this one gave him, far from him to make good, hardened the heels to him, and as the days passed, the legs also hardened, then all the body, so that the bad fairy was changed into stone. But it appears that by the very dark nights, it finds its mobility and still grinds in the wood of the vallée."

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • old Houses.
  • Large-Home 15th century with octagonal tower.
  • Castle Bruc rebuilt with S.
  • Juzet Castle.
  • Trénon Castle.
  • Castle Fleury Wood.
  • Château of Brossay of style Worsens.
  • Treguel Castle 18th century.
  • Friguel Castle 19th century.
  • a windmill.
  • Three water mills.
  • Church of Guéméné 19th century.
  • Church 19th century of Beslé.
  • Church of Guenouvry: rule of holy Anne.
  • Vault Holy-Anne: frescos; " Place-Saint" constituted of the vault and its accesses.
  • Site of the valley of the Gift.
  • Valley of the Unpleasant one.
  • Pond of the Valley.
  • Rock of the Wicked fairy and accesses.

Personalities related to the commune

Twinning

The city is twinned with:

See too

External bonds

  • Official site of the town hall
  • not-official Site
  • Guémené-Penfao on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Guémené-Penfao on the site of INSEE
  • Guémené-Penfao on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Guémené-Penfao on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Guémené-Penfao on Mapquest

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