Bigoudenland
The Bigoudenland ( Breton Bro-Vigoudenn , French Pays Bigouden ) is west of Quimper in the southwest of the Finistère department in Brittany between Plozévet , near the mouth of the Goyen at Audierne and the mouth of the Odet at Bénodet . The capital of Bigoudenland is Pont-l'Abbé ( German for "the abbot's bridge" ) with the Bigouden Museum. The landscape is named after the pointed hoods ( French coiffes ), the costume of local women.
Attractions
Culture
- Calvary (from Latin skull) Notre-Dame de Tronoën , the oldest in Brittany
- Notre-Dame de Tréminou chapel
- gothic church of St-Jean-Baptiste of Saint-Jean-Trolimon
- Gothic pilgrimage chapel Notre-Dame in Pouldreuzic
- Phare d'Eckmühl lighthouse near Penmarc'h , at 65 m one of the highest in France
- Parish Church of St-Tudy of Loctudy , a Romanesque building of the 12th century
- Pont-l'Abbé Castle , the only surviving Bigouden residence from the Middle Ages
- Ancient monuments Necropolis at the Pointe de Souc'h , the Tumulus of Poulguen , as well as dolmens , menhirs and phallic stones from the Iron Age
landscape
- Baie d 'Audierne
- Pointe de la Torche with the Beg tumulus at Dorchenn
- Pointe de Penmarc'h
Web links
- http://www.die-bretagne.de/pleyben3.htm (the Calvary)
- http://www.le-faou.com/lesconil/41.htm (map)