Argol
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Finistère | |
| Arrondissement | Chateaulin | |
| Canton | Crozon | |
| Community association | Presqu'île de Crozon-Aulne maritime | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 15 ′ N , 4 ° 19 ′ W | |
| height | 0-191 m | |
| surface | 31.73 km 2 | |
| Residents | 991 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 31 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 29560 | |
| INSEE code | 29001 | |
 Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul and Calvaire church |
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Argol ( Breton Argol ) is a French commune in the Bretagne region in the west of the Finistère department with 991 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).
geography
The municipality is located on the Crozon peninsula near the Atlantic coast in the Armorique Regional Nature Park ( French Parc naturel régional d'Armorique ).
Brest is 20 kilometers northwest, Quimper 30 kilometers southeast and Paris about 500 kilometers east.
At Le Faou and Châteaulin the next exits are on the expressway E 60 ( Nantes -Brest) and u. a. There is a regional train station in Châteaulin .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 899 | 819 | 766 | 700 | 698 | 746 | 802 | 991 |
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Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Argol
Argol has an enclosed parish . This formed the backdrop for the opening sequence in Chabrol's film "The Beast Must Die (Que la bête meure)" from 1969.
André Suarès describes Ker-Enor in his traditional farmhouse in Argol.
See also
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 309-312.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Übers. Otto Flake : André Suarès, Portraits. Nachw. Des Übers. Drei Masken Verlag, Munich 1922, pp. 123–156