Guiclan
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region | Brittany | |
Department | Finistère | |
Arrondissement | Morlaix | |
Canton | Landivisiau | |
Community association | Pays de Landivisiau | |
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
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
- Jean Kerléo (* 1932), French perfumer
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 1539-1542.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Notre Histoire. Les origines du groupe missionnaire , accessed November 22, 2018.