Locronan

Locronan is a common department of the Finistere, in the area Brittany, France. Its name in Breton is Lokorn .

Locronan is today gratifiée of the label of the more beautiful villages of France, decreed by an independent association aiming at promoting the tourist assets of small rich French communes of an inheritance of quality.

Its name means the “hermitage of Saint Ronan”. The old files call sometimes Locronan, Saint-Rene-of-Wood .

History

Locronan is a small borough built with the foot of a mountain and raised with the row of city in 1505 by Anne of Brittany come in pilgrimage.

As of the 15th century, the hemp flowers about everywhere in the area of Locronan. From this production is born at once a Industrie which will make thrive the small city. The fame of the fabrics resulting from the Manufacture of Locronan quickly will cross the borders and even the oceans.

It is at that time of found prosperity that go up the church Saint-Ronan as well as the small vault of the Penity contiguous to this one and sheltering the Gisant of the saint (respectively of 15th and 16th centuries).

The place located in front of them, bordered of beautiful houses renaissantes in Granite and equipped in its center with a well, takes all its dimension annually second Sunday of July at the time of the Troménies but even more every six years at the time of large the Troménie (the last one took place in 2007).

Although the contemporary ritual of the troménie is eminently catholic, its circuit would have Celtic roots, if one follows the assumption of the researcher Donatien Laurent; moreover the forest of Nevet preserves the toponymic trace of a Nemeton , space crowned in which the Druide S officiated.

The hagiographic tradition the top Moyen-âge teaches us that the area was christianized at the 5th century by Ronan saint, Irish hermit. The contemporary Oral tradition wants that holy Ronan traversed each day in penitence the circuit of small the troménie, and each Sunday that of large. The town of Locronan preserves forever the trace of its passage since we name it from now on Locronan, the locus (space) of Ronan.

Celtisants associated the estival procession of large the troménie to its Irish colleague of Croagh Patrick, which is held each first August, i.e. with the Celtic festival of Lugnasad; Ronan saint could be a misadventure of the god Lug.

Anecdotes

Locronan proposes good evenings sprinkled around a small portion of darts " at jos" or ostaliri Ti jos, bar highly attended by the local population, and which allows the village to thrive still today

Locronan also offers the characteristic to have the totality of its electric wires buried since the turning of one of many historical films made in the medieval city (chouans, sinners of Iceland, long Sunday of engagement…)

Troménie

Locronan is famous for its Grande Troménie , a procession being held around the limits of an old sacral space every six years. Between two Large Troménies is held annually Small Troménie, 2nd Sunday of July.

Cinema

The city was used as decorations for several films:

Chouans of Philippe de Broca;
Tess of Roman Polanski;
long Sunday of engagement of Jean-Pierre Jeunet;
Fishing of Iceland .

External bond

Site of the commune

Photographs of Locronan on Trekearth

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