La Roche-Maurice
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La Roche-Maurice Ar Roc'h-Morvan |
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Finistère | |
| Arrondissement | Brest | |
| Canton | Landerneau | |
| Community association | Pays de Landerneau-Daoulas | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 28 ′ N , 4 ° 12 ′ W | |
| height | 5-163 m | |
| surface | 12.04 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,807 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 150 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 29800 | |
| INSEE code | 29237 | |
_%C3%89glise_de_Pont-Christ_02.JPG) Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours chapel |
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La Roche-Maurice ( Breton Ar Roc'h-Morvan ) is a French commune in north-west Brittany in the Finistère department with 1807 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).
location
The place is located around 20 kilometers south of the Atlantic coast at the entrance to the English Channel . The city and port of Brest is 22 kilometers to the west and Paris about 470 kilometers to the east (as the crow flies ).
population
| Population development | |||||||
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| year | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | 2017 |
| Residents | 1225 | 1254 | 1401 | 1603 | 1704 | 1893 | 1807 |
Attractions
- St-Yves Church with Passion Window ( Monument historique )
- Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours chapel
See also: List of Monuments historiques in La Roche-Maurice
traffic
At Landerneau and Landivisiau there are the next exits on the expressway E 50 towards Rennes and at Daoulas one on the E 60 towards Nantes .
Brest train station is the terminus of the TGV Atlantique to Paris. The municipality has a train station on the Brest-Rennes railway line and regional trains in the direction of Morlaix / Rennes and Quimper / Nantes stop in Landerneau .
The Aéroport de Brest Bretagne regional airport is located near the city of Brest in Guipavas .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 999-1002.
