Plouha

The site of Plouha is very old. The discovery in 1879 of twelve Hache S in Bronze attests some. These axes are currently with the museum of Rennes. Vestiges of the age of iron are also visible today, a such cut stone which one can see in front of the vault of the Trinity and whose finality is vague.

To the the Middle Ages (starting from XIIe century), the city is directed by the counts de Goëlo who will make build six churches of which that of Plouha. Of XVe at the XVIIIe century, the lords of Plouha were successively Rohan, Guéméné and Montbazon. The other noble ones belonged to a very poor nobility.

The period of the Révolution was marked by the Chouannerie which knew an important activity. Thus, in March 1794, a few hundreds of chouans in vain awaited an English maritime supply on the beach of Palus. On the other hand, they met there a troop armed with revolutionists who exterminated them almost completely. Later, the 19 pluviose year VIII (February 8th, 1800), a group of chouans plundered the houses of the citizens and assassinated some of them. Somebody was even buried sharp.

In November 1943, Lucien Dumais and Raymond Labrosse (Franco-Canadian), come to organize and direct the network Shelburn the purpose of which is to recover the pilots of the shot down allied planes and to repatriate them towards the England. They were collected in France and were lodged a little everywhere in plouhatines families or surroundings, this, of course, without the knowledge of the occupant Nazi. Before the loading, 20 to 25 aviators were gathered in the house (code name: Maison of Alphonse ) where Marie and conveyed Jean Gicquel then of night lived, by the moor, frontier runners plouhatins. They arrived at the handle Cochat (code name: beach Bonaparte ) where light boats charged awaited them to convey them for an English corvette which was anchored in the open sea. Hundred thirty-five people, American, Canadian aviators and secret agents were thus evacuated towards England.

Personalities related to the commune

• Maurice Lannou, born in 1906 and died in 1992 in Plouha, Geographer, academic, professor with the Collège de France
• Jean-Louis Hamon, born on May 5th, 1821 in Plouha and deceased on May 29th, 1874, painter who gave his name to the public college of Plouha

Places and monuments

• the vault of Kermaria year Iskuit of the 13th century offering a mural representation of the Known as of three dead and the three sharp ones and one of the two Breton frescos showing a '' macabre Danse ''.
• the castle of Lysandré , 18th century, outside worth visiting all the year on go.
• the beach Bonaparte : high-place of resistance during the Second world war, the Shelburn network used it to make it possible many pilots of the RAF to regain Great Britain. The commodore of the fast patrol boat of recovery of the Royal Navy was the father of the artist Jane Birkin.
• Palus , remarkable beach in arc of primarily formed circle of rollers.
• picturesque the small port of Gwin Zegal , where the usual buoys of damping are replaced by wood piles sunk into the marine earth.

Others

Twinnings

• Killorglin (Ireland) since 1999
• Palas de Rei (Spain) since 2003

Calendar of festivals and events with Plouha