Inlet of Brest Pointe des Espagnols peninsula

Brest roadstead maritime Pointe de Cornouaille

Pointe des Capucins u Cranou To aniale d Ou Dom ess rêt an Fo t, M ol èn e t s Île Trébéron re B la Fraternité o Rumengol T Pointe Île Longue LANDÉVENNEC du Drezec Île des Morts Pointe de Lanvéoc Sillon des Anglais n Pointe Tremet o Sei Sillon du Pal T le de Landévennec Île du Renard Fort de Lanvéoc nia Cove of Camaret Le Zorn ma Do Pen ar Vir Le Loc’h êt Saint Le Fret Quillien For Pointe du Gouin Trez Rouz Fiacre Run ar C’hank Porzh Pointe Ste Barbe Pte du Toulinguet Korven École Navale GR 37 LANVÉOC Base aéronavale Enclave Quimerc’h GR 34 d’Argol Pen-Had CAMARET- The Aulne PONT-DE-BUIS- Mari SUR-MER tourist ro tim LÈS-QUIMERC’H ute e

Etang de Kerloc'h ROSNOËN Le Veryac’h Route des Manoirs

Pointe GR 34 de Pen-Hir Pte de Portzen CROZON Tal ar Groas Logonna- Trégarvan

ARGOL Quimerc’h Plage de de Plage T he A ul d’Argol to ne ale u M ani ris om t ar Estuaire de l'Aber êt D Menez-Hom ro it For u im Pointe de Dinan t Postolonnec e e L'Aber Rozan Porzh Koubou Morgat Pointe de Raguénez Plage de TELGRUC- la Source SUR-MER Information point GR34 & GR37 Pointe du Guern Beg ar Gwin Trez Bihan Bay of Plage de Trez Bellec Scenic viewing point/ Fortification Lostmarc’h Belvedere Pointe du Bellec Camper-van site ST NIC Museum St Hernot Pointe de St Hernot Keric Bihan Plage de La Palue La de Plage Pointe de Kéréon Site on the nature Service area reserve (ERB) Swimming prohibited Permitted night-time parking Porzh Kregwenn Anse St Nicolas Maison du Parc Campsite

Pointe de Talagrip Protected sites Cap de la Chèvre The Aulne Maritime tourist route Camping prohibited Réserve Naturelle SITES GÉOLOGIQUES DE LA PRESQU'ÎLE DE CROZON

A nature reserve for the shores Le Borgne © F. Porzh Korven (Camaret-sur-mer) of the Crozon Peninsula Protecting, enhancing and showcasing Email: [email protected] these resources are the three major web: www.comcom-crozon.bzh/ missions of the nature reserve, which is environnement/reserve-naturelle Created in 2013 under the “Espace traces of life from the past (animal run by the Communauté de communes Remarquable de Bretagne” label, fossils, worm tracks, ripple-marks). Presqu’île de Crozon – Aulne Maritime. the Regional Natural Reserve of the Limestone rocks resulting from the This activity receives financial support Crozon peninsula’s geological sites is sedimentation of shells, , and from the Région Bretagne, Europe and the a protected area that is recognised for magmatic rocks resulting from volcanic Communauté de communes. its outstanding natural heritage. Spread eruptions add to the geo-diversity of this over the 120 km of the peninsula’s outstanding terrain. Safety advice shores, its 27 coastal sites have … to rare and been singled out for their outstanding Located on cliffs, the sites of the nature reserve are naturally unstable and geological heritage as well as for the endangered species potentially dangerous. For your safety, keep to the coastal footpaths, visit the sites natural habitats and the biodiversity to Located at the interface between at low tide and keep away from the base of cliffs to avoid cliff falls. Take care not to be found there. land and sea, the sites of the nature become trapped by the sea in coves and caves. > See map in pocket inside cover reserve also offer a mosaic of natural habitats (cliffs, moorland, dunes, silt From outstanding flats, caves…) that are home to a Regulations geological heritage… significant biodiversity. Here, one can spot common shore species such as For everyone’s enjoyment of this heritage, it is forbidden to deface and remove Formed at the bottom of the sea, the European gorse1, the silver gull2, and rocks, minerals and fossils, to destroy the flora and fauna, to leave rubbish, to Crozon peninsula’s subsoil consists wall lizard3, not to mention the rare and light fires, to camp and to drive a motor vehicle on the nature reserve. mainly of sedimentary rocks that are protected species such as the Shrubby hundreds of millions of years old. These Gromwell4 (deep blue flower), the Marsh are essentially sandstone and schist Fritillary5 (butterfly with the colours of corresponding to ancient deposits of autumn) and the Red-billed Chough6 (a sand and silt that have consolidated, bird with an acrobatic flight that nests in sometimes revealing conditions and the cliffs). DISCOVER the treasures of the nature reserve! The Maison des Minéraux - an educational partner of the nature re- serve - offers numerous discovery activities for everyone (nature walks, family outings tinkering with geology, museum visits…). Information from : www.maison-des-mineraux.org 1 2 3 4 5 6 Route du Cap de la Chèvre 29160 Crozon. Tel. : 02 98 27 19 73 © Carole Le Garsmeur Email : [email protected]

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