Guingamp

Guingamp ( Breton Gwengamp in ) is a common French, located in the department of the Coast-with Armor and the area Brittany.

Geography

History

The Comté of Penthièvre was a time reduced to small a county known as of Guingamp.

Guingamp is quoted to have taken part in the Révolte of the red Bonnets or Révolte of the stamped paper which has occurred in 1675. Three rioters were hung there.

Administration

Larrondissement of Guingamp gathers the cantons of Bégard, Beautiful-Isle-in-Ground, Bourbriac, Callac, Gouarec, Guingamp, Maël-Carhaix, Ripe-of-Brittany, Plouagat, Pontrieux, Rostrenen, Saint-Nicolas-of-Pélem the.

The canton of Guingamp gathers the communes of Coadout, Grâces, Guingamp, Moustéru, Pabu, Plouisy, Ploumagoar, Saint-Agathon.

Economy

The city has an antenna of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Coast-in Armor.

Culture

The city has remarkable and modern media Library-Center, located in full center town at the site of the old ramparts of the old city, whose creation and perenniality were torn off from brave fight; an Arts center of Breton Culture and Celtic; a municipal theater where the cultural Office organizes many spectacles resulting from the French national scenes ; a room dedicated to the exposures of photographs and contemporary art in the old vault of the Town hall as well as a Social center and a Youth hostel the workers who have a supported cultural activity which continues in some dynamic bars of the city in which orchestras of various musical currents occur.

A city which supports the dance

The dance is very present in the cultural activities of the city and the cultural office organizes one week of the contemporary creative dance.

The Festival of the Breton Dance of the Saint-Wolf - National competition of the Breton dance and International festival, under the direction of Jean-Pierre Ellien, (invited: the Scotland, the Ireland, the Galicia, the Asturies, the Wales, and of the artists of the whole world) are held every year towards mid-August. It always ends in a famous dance, the catch one of Guingamp. Guingamp is the capital of the Breton dance.

Guingamp: the city of the camellia

The city is moreover known for the promotion of the culture of the Camélia on the initiative of Fanch Ar Moal, large specialist Breton and international in the Camélia which is now supported by a new association devoted to the cause of the camellia.

Tourist monuments and places

Personalities related to the commune

  • Pierre II of Brittany (1418 - 1487), Duke of Brittany (Pierre of Dreux)

  • François Valentine (1738 - 1805), painter
  • Yves Marie Pastol (1770 - 1813), general
  • François Alphonse Hénaff (1821 - 1884), painter
  • Guy Ropartz (1864 - 1955), type-setter, director of the Conservatory of Nancy
  • rear Erwan Moal (1874 - 1957), writer of Breton, journalist, humanistic, philosophical Language and Christian militant Breton separatist. He made the decision to cease publishing and publishing his editions in Breton language (Newspaper " Breiz") at the beginning of the German Occupation in June 1940
  • Theophilus Marie Brébant (1889 - 1965), Officer French of the First and Second world war
  • Goulven Mazéas (1895 - 1981), militant Separatist of the left Breton democratic, republican, federalistic and of Gironde. He was also a writer of which singular, Celtic, poetic work and philosophical merit to be redécouverte
  • Gilbert Renault (1904 - 1984), hero of the Résistance (the " Colonel Rémy" in clandestinity) and writer
  • Georges Close, teacher, humanistic, first secretary of the Local union CGT, created in 1936, creator and organizer of summer camp the “P' tits guy of Ahead” (of Guingamp) (Pleumeur-Bodou-Landrellec), died in the Nazi camps
  • Edouard Ollivro (1921 - 1982), writer, former mayor and deputy of the city
  • Jacques Trébouta, realizer born the March 31st 1930
  • Francis Favereau, Lexicographer of Breton Language, professor and writer of Breton Language born it June 21st 1948
  • Fanch Ar Moal, large Breton and international specialist in the Camellia
  • Per Even, Latinist and Celtisant, he was a writer and a Christian Philosophe of Breton Langue which translated into Breton the Discourse on Method of Descartes and works of Saint Augustin whose work was published by the editions Imbourc' H (= Recherche) of Rennes directed by Youenn Olier

Sport

The city shelters the professional football club having played in League 1 been dependant on the smallest population. The stage of Roudourou counts indeed: 18256 places for a population of Guingamp bordering them: 8000 inhabitants. Its president Christmas Graët is also mayor of the city, first employer of the area in the agroalimentary one, and vice-president of the FF.

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • Guingamp on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Guingamp on the site of INSEE
  • Guingamp on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Guingamp on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plan of Guingamp on Mapquest
  • Official site of the Town of Guingamp
  • Tourist bureau on Guingamp
  • Office of the Breton language
  • Agence Brittany Presses
  • rear Bretoned bed - Breton of the World
  • Gwalarn - Breton Gate
  • An Tan Turn - Breton Gate
  • Histoire of Brittany
  • Géographie of Brittany, gate of the cities and countries Breton - Guingamp/Gwengamp
  • Radios Breton
  • Bagadoo - Culture
  • Gwalarn - History

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