Landévennec
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Finistère | |
| Arrondissement | Chateaulin | |
| Canton | Crozon | |
| Community association | Presqu'île de Crozon-Aulne maritime | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 17 ′ N , 4 ° 16 ′ W | |
| height | 0-116 m | |
| surface | 13.83 km 2 | |
| Residents | 337 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 24 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 29560 | |
| INSEE code | 29104 | |
 View above Landévennec over the Rade de Brest |
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Landévennec ( Breton Landevenneg ) is a French commune with a small port in the far west of Brittany in the Finistère department with 337 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017). The municipality is located in the east of the Crozon peninsula directly at the mouth of the river Aulne in the Atlantic Ocean or in the Bay of Brest and is located in the Armorique Regional Nature Park ( French Parc naturel régional d'Armorique ).
location
Brest is 18 kilometers northwest and Quimper 35 kilometers southeast.
traffic
The nearest exits are at Le Faou and Châteaulin on the expressway E 60 ( Nantes -Brest) and the nearest train stations are in Châteaulin, Quimper and Brest.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2017 |
| Residents | 564 | 523 | 423 | 377 | 374 | 371 | 349 | 337 |
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Attractions
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- Notre-Dame Church, Monument historique
- Landévennec Abbey , founded in 485 AD, later destroyed, a new Benedictine abbey was founded in the 1950s
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Landévennec
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 341-346.
Web links
Commons : Landévennec - collection of images, videos and audio files
