Guiclan

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Guiclan
Coat of arms of Guiclan
Guiclan (France)
Guiclan
region Brittany
Department Finistère
Arrondissement Morlaix
Canton Landivisiau
Community association Pays de Landivisiau
Coordinates 48 ° 33 ′  N , 3 ° 58 ′  W Coordinates: 48 ° 33 ′  N , 3 ° 58 ′  W
height 3-131 m
surface 42.64 km 2
Residents 2,490 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 58 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 29410
INSEE code 29068
Website http://www.guiclan.fr

Guiclan ( Gwiglann in Breton ) is a French commune with 2,490 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Brittany region in the Finistère department . It belongs to the community association Communauté de communes du Pays de Landivisiau .

geography

Morlaix is ten kilometers east, Brest 40 kilometers west and Paris about 470 kilometers east. At Morlaix and Saint-Thégonnec the next exits are on the expressway E 50 ( Rennes -Brest), and u. a. there are regional train stations in Morlaix and Landivisiau .

There are regional airports near Rennes and Brest . The river Penzé runs along the eastern border of the municipality .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2008 2017
Residents 2202 2076 2011 1937 2045 2030 2143 2490
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

Church and Calvaire in Guiclan

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Guiclan

The Saint-Pierre church has been a monument historique since 1932 , i.e. a listed building. In the cemetery there is a Calvaire , the typical Breton crucifixion group .

In the hamlet of Lézarazien in the southwest of the municipality, on the border with Landivisiau and Lampaul-Guimiliau , the motherhouse of the Société des Prêtres de Saint-Jacques , a missionary order mainly active in Haiti and Brazil , has been located since 1894 . The main building of the monastery was the castle of the de Kerouartz family, one of the oldest noble families in Brittany, until the 19th century. It is located in a spacious park.

Personalities

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 1539-1542.

Web links

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

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Joseph Michel: Missionnaires bretons d'outre-mer aux XIXe et XXe siècles . Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 1997, ISBN 2-86847-248-6 , p. 63.
  2. ↑ Notre Histoire. Les origines du groupe missionnaire , accessed November 22, 2018.