Pontivy

Pontivy , Breton Pondi in and Pondivi in Gallo, is a common French, located in the department of the Morbihan and the area Brittany.

Geography

Pontivy is located at the confluence of the two principal rivers of the center Brittany, Blavet and the Channel from Nantes to Brest.

Places known as and variations

Stival

Stival is an old commune, today parish of Pontivy.

History

The Moine Ivy founds Pontivy at the 7th century. It makes build a bridge on the Blavet which will give to the city its name Bridge-in Ivy .

Pontivy is known for facts related to the Révolte of the Red Bonnets in 1675.

Starting from the 18 Brumaire An XII (November 9th 1804) the name is changed into Napoléonville to transform of it the city of 3000 inhabitants “in peace, the center of a big business, and in the war, an important military center”. Many streets will receive the name of striking facts or characters of the Empire. Under the restoration, it will become again Pontivy before being called Bourbonville, then again Napoléonville under Napoleon III.

Administration

Demography

Structure and tourism

Pontivy is with the dires of its inhabitants a rather calm and pleasant city. One finds there, in addition to several various historic buildings, a cinema, a village hall, a discotheque, a bowling, a library, and many other cultural places. Moreover each year several festivals of music take place. But one can just as easily prefer with these various activities a peaceful walk, along banks of the Blavet.

The summer, the city opens to the tourists, interested by the medieval castle of the end of the 15th century, partially restored, sheltering each year an estival exposure, and throughout the year a work of a Japanese artist, Koki Watanabe, contemporary work of art which lies within the scope of the festival of Art in the vaults.

The architecture of Pontivy is characterized by two times: the place of Martray, the street of the Wire and the street of the Bridge are in the middle of the medieval axis, where one will be able to discover, along paved lanes, some half-timbered houses dating from the Middle Ages, strongly contrasting with the city built under the Empire. The second purely Napoleonean style, with its streets traced with the institutional chalk line and its buildings, such as the Barracks, the College Joseph Loth (1803), the Town hall and the Court, which both face on both sides place of weapons (currently the place Aristide Briand), reflects a rationalist and functionalist architecture.

Economy

The city is in the center of the North-South road main axe of the Brittany, connecting the coastal areas of the Morbihan to those of the Coast-with Armor.

An important agribusiness industry developed around the towns of Pontivy and Loudéac.

Pontivy is moreover an administrative and commercial pole.

To finally note the importance of the establishments of secondary education, as well as establishments of higher education.

The city has a delegation of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Morbihan.

Famous characters

Angel Guépin
Jean-Yves Lambert, known as Lafesse (comic).
Ferdinand Drogo (Former cyclist)
Paul Drogo (Former cyclist)
Arnaud Lan (Football player pro)
Emile Masson (Writer and philosopher, professor of English to the college of Pontivy)
Louis-Adolphe Robin-Morhéry (former student of the college of Pontivy)
Alain (philosopher)

Tourist monuments and places

the Castle of the Rohan (and its ditches) (fine XVe)
the basilica Our-Lady-of-Joy, sheltering a Organ Cavaillé-coll
the church St Joseph
Napoléonville architecture, around the old place of weapons
church St Mériadec with Stival (murals of XVIe S.)

Events

Each year takes place the finale of the rear Kan Bobl ( Chant of the People ), a contest of Breton Musique.
Each year takes place the Festival of Rock'n'roll Rock has Vista which gathers 4000 people per annum.
Each year takes place the Fair with the Birds which is largest of France with its 12000 visteurs and its 7000 birds.

Twinnings

References

External bonds

++ * Site of the international federation of 53 associations and quoted Pontivy schools

Site of the town hall
weather with Pontivy
Pontivy on the site of the national geographical Institute
Pontivy on the site of INSEE
Pontivy on the site of Quid

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