Gouézec

Gouézec
region	Brittany
Department	Finistère
Arrondissement	Chateaulin
Canton	Briec
Community association	Pleyben-Châteaulin-Porzay
Coordinates	48 ° 10 ′  N , 3 ° 58 ′  W Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′  N , 3 ° 58 ′  W
height	19-270 m
surface	30.94 km 2
Residents	1,100 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	36 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	29190
INSEE code	29062
Mairie Gouézec

Gouézec ( Breton Gouezeg ) is a French commune with 1100 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Finistère department . The municipality belongs to the canton of Briec (until 2015 canton of Pleyben ).

location

The place is located in the west of Brittany near the river Aulne .

Quimper is 21 kilometers to the southwest, Brest 44 kilometers to the northwest and Paris about 450 kilometers to the east (as the crow flies ). Not far is the Allée couverte from Loch-ar-Ronfl .

traffic

At Le Faou and Châteaulin , the next exits are on the expressway E 60 (Brest – Nantes ) and at Landivisiau and Morlaix on the E 50 (Brest – Rennes ). In the aforementioned places there are also the nearest regional train stations on the mostly parallel railway lines.

Brest train station is the terminus of the TGV Atlantique to Paris.

The nearest regional airports are the Aéroport de Brest Bretagne near Brest and the Aéroport de Lorient Bretagne Sud near Lorient .

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2017
Residents	1356	1212	1062	1070	1076	984	1049	1100
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Gouézec

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  Notre-Dame-de-Tréguron chapel

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  Notre-Dame-des-Trois-Fontaines chapel

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 902-908.

Web links

Commons : Gouézec  - collection of images, videos and audio files