Perros-Guirec

Perros-Guirec ( Breton Perroz-Gireg in ) is a common , Chef-lieu of canton of the department of the Coast-with Armor, in the area Brittany, in France. It is to 78 km of Saint-Brieuc, 175 km of Rennes and 524 km of Paris.

The inhabitants are called the Perrosiens . Perros-Guirec is located in a protected natural site, in the middle of a strange landscape where the ground and the sea are strewn with pink granite rocks to the forms cut out by the wind.

The city has two emblems: the Puffin , small marine bird with the nozzle coloured of which the largest colony in France niche in the Seven Islands, and the flower of Hydrangea particularly present in the city and the gardens of the private individuals.

Perros-Guirec is especially known like seaside resort in family matter thanks to some beautiful sand beaches end (Trestraou and Trestignel), and with its coast partly made up of blocks of pink granite to the impressive forms. In 2007, the city was elected better Seaside resort of France in an investigation carried out by the magazine Nouvel Observateur.

The commune is divided into several boroughs (regroupings of houses). Apart from the city itself, two more important are Ploumanac' H and Clearness.

Geography

Its activity is primarily tourist, the season of multitude being the summer, lasting which the city takes another dimension in activities so much (sporting, cultural and economic) that in population (multiplied by approximately 8).

The Path the coastguards , on the site protected from the moors of Ploumanac' H, borders celebrates it pink Côte of granite, eroded since nearly 300 million years, which offers a supernatural landscape of granitic chaos to the strange forms, extending on nearly 9 km.

The city includes/understands three principal beaches. That of Trestraou is sunny. Are there the casino and the Palate of the congresses, where often take place of the exposures. It is of this beach that one embarks to visit the Seven Islands which surround it, among which “the Island with the Birds” (the Rouzig island), uninhabited, but where resident Goéland S and gannet. The beach of Trestrignel is more beaten by the winds. Enough wild, which makes its charm, it like is boxed with bottom a coast, and is bordered by the point of the Castle, headland rock the top of which one can benefit from a panoramic sight on the islands, in particular on the Tomé island (which does not form part of the Seven Islands). The beach of Saint-Guirec is as for it in the borough of Ploumanac' H, along the coastguard path; it is thus an easy halt for any hiker the summer. Vis-a-vis it on an small island draws up the Castle of Costaérès.

The port of the city is equipped with a wet dock and accommodates as well the sea fishermen as the yachtmen. A retaining tank of water being next to the wet dock, Linkin, in the past Flushing basin, was transformed into surface of nautical activities (school or tourist, according to the season).

History

Perros-Guirec belongs to the Trégor, but until the French revolution the parish of Perros-Guirec, wedged in the évêché of Tréguier belonged to the Doyenné of concerning Lannion évêché of Fraud and known under the term of Jacques the Minor (see the church Saint-Jacob, principal church of the city).

Between 1908 and 1949, the city is served by a small train coming from Lannion or Tréguier, and which stops on the level of the roads (port).

Etymology

“Perros” comes from Breton words “PEN” (course, end, end) and “roz” (hill going down towards the sea);
“Guirec” (spelled “Gireg” into Breton) is the name of a monk come from On the other side of the channel for évangéliser the Breton S from the time and which took foot on the beach of Saint-Guirec in Ploumanac' H. One finds the name of this saint in the name of the commune of Locquirec ( loc Guireg ).

Into Breton, Perros-Guirec is written “Perroz-Gireg” (pronunciation identical to that of French, but with the accent much more pronounced on the " o" and on the " i").

Administration

The Canton of Perros-Guirec includes/understands the communes of Kermaria-Sulard, Louannec, Perros-Guirec, Pleumeur-Bodou, Saint-Quay-Perros, Trébeurden, Trégastel, Trélévern, Trévou-Tréguignec.

The Common one decided not to adhere to the Community agglomeration of Lannion-Trégor, composed of the twenty communes which surround Lannion.

Demography

Twinnings

The town of Perros-Guirec is twinned with 4 cities:

Culture

The common point of disjunction the Celtic Circle rear Skewell (of the name of a remarkable rock block between Perros and Ploumanac' H) and a Bagad, the bagad Sonerien Bro To ripple (in French: bell ringers of Trégor).

At the beginning of August each year, takes place the Festival of the Hydrangeas , with procession of the groups and invited circles, a concert of a musician or a known group (daN Ar Braz, Alan Stivell, Tri Yann, Soldat Louis, Hugues Aufray, etc) and impossible to circumvent the Fest-noz. The festival is held on several scenes simultaneously. Environment is rather with the Breton traditional music, but one finds also groups more “electric” and systematically a folk delegation of a nation foreign.

See the official site of the Festival

In April, the commune accommodates also a festival of cartoons .

Sport

The city lodges a club of table tennis (" 7 Islands Tennis of table") whose first teams evolve/move in national championship.

The city is regularly the starting point or a stage of the race to broad as a recluse of the Figaro.

It is also in Perros-Guirec that the only club of surfing of Coast-in Armor is based, the Seven Islands Surf Club . The club has a teaching vocation (initiation) but also of competition since it counts champions of Brittany and candidates in Longboard of national and international level. The practice is done on the great beach of Trestraou primarily from September to May when the depressions are rolled up on the Brittany point.

On the level of football, the city is in agreement with the commune of Louannec. The seniors evolve/move in Division 1 district, less than 18 years when with them evolve/move at the regional level, in Promotion of Honor.

Places and monuments

Remarkable buildings and public places

the house of Maurice Denis, Impressionist painter Nabi and with the top of the beach of Trestrignel
the Large Hotel, in Trestraou, of architecture typical Art déco of the balneal style of the Twenties

Religious buildings

Église Saint-Jacob Major the

name “St-Jacques” indicates that the city was a crossing point for the road towards Saint-Jacob de Compostelle, and one finds besides some scallops engraved with the frontispieces of the doors.

Chapelle Notre-Dame of Clearness ( Itron Varied rear Sklaerder into Breton)

This vault was built in 1445 following a wish made by the marquis de Barac' H which was saved of a shipwreck.

Vault Joseph Saint, or vault of the Roads. Of recent construction (1960), it is located in the district of the Roads, to a few hundred meters of the port, is posed under the wood of Love.
Saint-Guirec Vault of Ploumanach

Oratorical Saint-Guirec, on the beach of the same name in the borough of Ploumanach

This oratory, accessible only to low tide, protects a statue from the saint. An ancestral habit consists in for the young girls pricking a pin in the nose of the statue; the pin which holds is a good predicts marriage. This habit put at evil the nose of the original statue out of wood; the current statue is out of granite, but its nose suffered much, less because of the young girls that tourists who “perpetuate” the tradition.

Museums

Museum of the history and the traditions of Low Brittany (wax museum): old Harbor office of the Port with Perros-Guirec, it is in 1989, that this Museum was inaugurated by Pierre-Jakez Hélias (celebrates Breton writer, author of the Cheval of Pride ).

De Perros-Guirec with Lannion while passing by Tréguier, Moncontour, Morlaix, etc, of large characters and the big events is presented and commented on in the ten rooms out of two stages, in the middle of the decorations of Jean-Marie the Prior and of the frescos of Veronique Chanteau.

Others

Castle of Costaérès, large manor on a private island, difficult to reach to very low spring tides and in which Henryk Sienkiewicz is famous to have written the French version of its book “Quo vadis?”. The island is today property of the German actor Dieter Hallervorden;
the coastguard Path: coastal lane between Ranolien and the port of Ploumanac' H, reserved to the pedestrians, allowing to go for a walk in seaside in the middle of the chaotic clusters, masses of pink granite rocks of which some have evocative forms: the Bottle reversed, the Die, the Hat of Napoleon (quoted by Charles de Gaulle during a diffusion of France with the French ), the rabbit, the castle of Devil etc One sees there the headlight of Min Ruz, rebuilt entirely out of pink granite after his destruction during the Second world war;

the handle of Pors Kamor;
beaches: Trestraou, Trestrignel and Saint-Guirec; the Bastille
the port of Perros-Guirec, with the Roads (low part of the town of Perros);
the Seven Islands, archipelago of small islands to broad of Perros, most important is the Island with the Monks with his ''' headlight ''' and its ''' extremely '''; the island Riouzig (Rouzic) is one of the greatest ornithological reserves of France of birds of sea (Natural reserve of the Seven Islands);
the valley of Traouïero, double steepsided valley (the large one and small Traouïero) emerging in the port of Ploumanac' H and which, says one, was so inaccessible that it was used as refuge with brigands;
the natural port of Ploumanac' H, one the most protected of from the northern coast of Brittany. Two mills with tide separate the port from the valley of Traouïero.
pink granite careers, close to the small borough of Clearness, from where the blocks are extracted from granite of so particular color.
the actor and imitator Thierry the Lad rests with the cemetery of the city.

Industry

pink Career of granite with Clearness
Tourism, water sport

The city also benefits from its proximity with the economic and university pole of Lannion.

Agriculture

Town planning

See too

Internal bonds

Common of Coast-in Armor

Notes, sources and references

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