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which the Breton wind La Plage du Corréjou blows its thick sand dunes, Corre jou Beach to Pointe de Pen-Hir , This fine sand beach is safe imposing high cliffs in a and accessible to all. stormy sea. La plage de Pen -Hat LA FAUNE ET LA Camaret-sur-Mer rich Beach Pen -Hat FLORE / NATURAL history guarantees that Pen-Hat is a beach HERITAGE visitors to the town will dedicated to surfers where La lande pourpre, riche never be short of venues to bathing i s sternly d’ajoncs et de bruyères, les visit and sights to see. prohibited . dunes charnues de la plage Please, follow gannets and de Pen-Hat, les falaises crabs! tourmentées de la Pointe de Pen-Hir… Camaret-sur- Situated in the heart of Parc Mer offre autant de Naturel Marin d’Iroise (The paysages variés aux Iroise Marine Natural Park) promeneurs, que de and of Parc Naturel refuges et d’habitats à la Régional d’Armorique (The faune et la flore évoluant Armorica Regional Natural sur nos côtes. Park), Camaret-sur-Mer belongs to Natura 2000 The flora and fauna ecological network. Nevertheless, you will be able to watch the sun set or Les plages / Beaches the Sable fin, cordon de galets, moon mares dans les roches à rise, marée basse… Farniente, with the “bassins tactiles”, pêche à Walkers or flora and fauna pieds, activités nautiques… semaphore of the Pointe du won’t be disappointed Cinq plages bordent either, Toulinguet in the Camaret-sur-Mer : un grand background. as terrain de jeu pour tous les goûts. Warning: in Camaret-sur- Mer , beaches are Camaret-sur-Mer unpatrolled, so you must be Camaret- encompasses five beaches careful. Besides, pets are sur-Mer has many coastal to enjoy everyone: whether not allowed there. walks and a large area of you are looking for water- outstanding natural beauty. based recreational activities From Pointe de la Tavelle , or for idleness then covered with furze and Camaret-sur-Mer is the heathers like a purple land, place for you. to Beach of Pen-Hat over

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Le Parc Naturel Pourquoi “Mer port-arsenal de Brest. Marin d’Iroise / The d’Iroise” ? / What is Encore inachevée, elle fait Iroise Marine the origin of the son baptème du feu le 18 juin 1694 lors de la bataille Natural Park name “Iroise Sea”? de Trez -Rouz en brisant Le terme d’Iroise n’apparaît l’assaut de 147 vaisseaux que tardivement sur les cartes marines anciennes du XVè et XVIè siècle. En 1705, la Carte du Gouvernement Général de Bretagne mentionne pour la première fois le « passage de Lyroise ». En Créée 1770, la carte générale des de la flotte anglo - en Septembre 2007, cette côtes de Bretagne hollandaise. La Tour aire marine protégée prend mentionne elle aussi le Vauban est en cours de en compte la richesse et la passage de l’Iroise, entre la restauration, afin de biodiversité des milieux Chaussée des Pierres réaliser les tranches de marins de la Pointe Noires et la Chaussée de travaux requises dans le Finistère, entre Ouessant et Sein. l’île de Sein. Elle a cadre de l’inscription à également pour objectif de The name “Iroise” l’Unesco – Réseau des Sites promouvoir le appeared for the first time Majeurs de Vauban, inscrit développement durable in the nautical charts dating au P atrimoine Mondial, le 7 des activités maritimes, back to the 15 th and 16 th Juillet 2008. professionnelles ou de centuries. Actually, in 1705, Drafted in 1683, La Tour loisirs. the Map from the General Vauban (The Vauban Government of Tower ) is a defensive tower Created in 2007, The Iroise mentioned Le Passage de designed in 1689 by Vauban Marine Natural Park is a Lyroise (The Passage of in order to guard the port of marine protected area off Lyroise). Then, in 1770, a Brest. Completed in 1696, the coast of Finistère map of Brittany coastlines the tower played a between the islands , also inscribed Le Passage de significant role during the Molène , and Sein , and the Lyroise between La Battle of Camaret (18 th coasts of headland Chaussée des Pierres Noires June, 1694) in forcing the and . This area (The Blacks Rocks’ English fleet back out to is remarkable for its Causeway ) and La Chaussée sea. amazing biodiversity which de Sein (The Sein contains dozens of less well- Causeway). known or more discreet marine species. Therefore, one of the aims of this HISTORICAL AND marine natural park consists CULTURAL in boasting the sustainable development in all maritime HERITAGE activities, from professional to leisure ones. La Tour Vauban (The Vauban Tower) La Tour Vauban (The For further information, Projetée dès 1683 sous le Vauban Tower ) is called La please visit the official règne de Louis XIV, les Tour Dorée (The Gilded website at: plans de la tour sont tracés Tower ): in 2008, it has been http://www.parc-marin- dès 1689 par Vauban, afin inscribed on the UNESCO iroise.com/ d’assurer la défense du World Heritage List, as part

The Tourist Information Centre of Camaret-sur-Mer 2 Les visites autour du Port de Camaret/Mer of the “Fortifications of constituent les In those years, a dozen of Vauban ” group. thématiques de cette shipyards lead the loca l exposition permanente, qui maritime activity and not La Route des se veut technique, mais far off 200 ships were Fortifications / A surtout témoin d’un temps drawn alongside the port. map of Camaret-sur- révolu.

Mer fortifications Ouvert tous les jours en De la préhistoire à juillet/août de 14h30 à Notre -Dame de aujourd’hui, venez 18h30. Quai Kléber. Rocamadour Chapel découvrir les ouvrages de En l’an 1527 fut fondée la défense qui s’étendent tout Situated at the very end of au long de la Presqu’île. the Peninsula, Camaret-sur- Mer had been playing a Imposing bastioned strategic role in the fortifications built as costal maritime heritage defence retrace the history throughout the ages. At of the Crozon Peninsula, first, the town was the from prehistory through to guardian of the Goulet de the present day. Brest (Narrow of Brest). Until the beginning of the 20 th century, Camaret-sur- Mer was well-known for its sardine fishery. After living its most prosperous period with the crayfish fishery, the town has become a yachting harbour to preserve its chapelle Notre -Dame du maritime heritage. Roc (Roch A Ma Dour), du The curved shape of the Breton “roc au milieu des La Maison du Kameled 1port eaux”. Cette interprétation tient compte de la situation Patrimoine Maritime The Maritime Museum is géographique, puisque la de Camaret / located on Quai Kléber , near chapelle se situe sur un Camaret-sur-Mer the Artists’ District where piton rocheux. Une autre Maritime Museum the fishers were formerly hypothèse, en relation avec Située dans une ancienne living. Actually, the current le pèlerinage de museum is an ex-fish Rocamadour dans le canning factory. Quercy, veut que les pèlerins nordiques, Here, you will find all about soucieux d’emprunter une the fishers’ diary life in the route maritime plus sûre et Camaret-sur-Mer of the rapide, auraient fait escale 1930s: unpublished pour y fonder ce sanctuaire photographs, testimonies, afin de perpétuer le culte genuine tools and working de Notre -Dame et servir conserverie, la Maison du clothes could take you on a d’abri. Lors de la tentative Patrimoine vous invite à journey through time. de débarquement des partager le passé des anlgo-hollandais en juin camarétois : construction 1694, un boulet décoiffa la navale, pêche à la sardine 1 Kameled is the Breton flèche du clocher qui ne fut et à la langouste, femmes translation for Camaret-sur- jamais remplacé. Un au travail, mareyage… Mer . incendie en 1910 nécessita

The Tourist Information Centre of Camaret-sur-Mer 3 Les visites autour du Port de Camaret/Mer la restauration de la Les alignements other words a National chapelle : disparition de Heritage Site of ), mégalithiques de th nombreux ex-voto. A Lagatjar / Standing since the June 8 , 1883. l’initiative du Poète St-Pol- Roux, un Comité fut fondé stones in the pour collecter les fonds. Lagatjar alignment Le Poète St -Pol-Roux The chapel was built in the / The poet called year 1527. There are two Saint -Pol-Roux main reasons why the Symboliste et précurseur chapel was called du surréalisme, Pierre Paul Rocamadour . The first rests Roux est né le 15 Janvier on that Rocamadour could 1861 à St -Henri (Marseille) . derive from the Breton appellation “ Roch A Ma Dour ” meaning “rock in the middle of the waters ”. Edifiés vers 2 500 avant J.C. Actually, this appellation et classés au titre des refers to the geographic Monuments Historiques place of the chapel which is depuis le 8 juin 1883, ils ne on a rocky peak, under the comprennent plus de nos water during the periods of jours que 65 menhirs, qui large tidal coefficients. The s’étendent sur plus de 200 second reason is related to mètres. L’ensemble dessine Saint-Po l-Roux was a French the pilgrimage to une ligne orientée N35°E et Symbolist poet and the Rocamadour town in Quercy S35°O, d’où partent à angle forerunner of the province: actually, droit deux lignes parallèles. Surrealism movement. Scandinavian pilgrims, who Cette orientation est associée à la constellation Born Paul -Pierre Roux in St were seeking for a safe th maritime road, might have des Pléiades, en breton « ar Henri (Marseilles) on 15 put in at Camaret-sur-Mer . yar » (la poule), d’où la January 1861, he studied in During their stay, they could toponymie du lieu-dit de Notre-Dame des Minimes have set up a sanctuary Lagad-yar (l’œil de la poule) College where he passed dedicated to worship Notre- the Baccalaureate in Dame’s memory and to The Lagatjar alignment Literature. shelter the next pilgrims. includes 65 stones which were erected around 2500 At first, he wrote some BC over more than 200 plays thanks to which he meters along. Their layout is became better known; from Later, during the Battle of associated to the 1890, he began to sign his Camaret-sur-Mer in June astronomic orientation of work under the pen name 1694, a cannonball the Pleiades constellation “Saint-Pol -Roux ”. destroyed the Chapel’s (Seven Sisters). steeple which had never A year lat er, he met Amélie been restored since. This standing stones Bélorgey , his wife. From alignment was called Brussels, to the Ardennes, Lagatjar in reference to the to Paris, he finally settled in Breton interpretation Roscanvel where his

“lagad ar yar ” meaning “the daughter Divine was born. eye of the hen ”. Then, he moved to Camaret -sur-Mer town This site is classified as which was to become the Monument Historique source of his inspiration. (Historic Monument, in

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There, Saint-Pol-Roux bought in 1903 a fisherman’s cottage which overlooked the Beach of Pen-Hat. He transformed this cottage into a manor which was named firstly Le Manoir du Boultous and, after the death of his son in 1914, Le Manoir de Coecilian .

During the night of 23 to 24 June 1940, a German soldier invaded the manor, killed the governess and injured Divine .

Lastly, the manor was burned down with the manuscript what lead to the death of the poet Saint-Pol- Roux .

The ruin of Saint-Pol-Roux Manor resulted from an allied air raid in 1944.

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