Landes de Lanvaux
The Landes de Lanvaux are a hilly landscape in the French Morbihan department of the Breton peninsula .
They extend north of Vannes in a west-east direction. They begin around Baud and extend as a ten kilometer wide strip to the eastern border of the Morbihan at la Gacilly, north of Redon .
Important places in the Landes are Brandivy , Camors , Colpo with the Dolmen of Min Goh Ru , Trédion with the Loge-au-Loup (Wolfsbau) and Rochefort-en-Terre with the Parc de Préhistoire de Bretagne (with dinosaur copies ) near Malansac or the Dolmen of Kermorvan ( Moustoir-Ac ).
history
The Landes were the scene of the Breton uprising of the Chouannerie, led by Georges Cadoudal . Saint-Marcel became a stronghold of the Breton resistance during World War II. A few hours before the Normandy invasion in 1944, two groups of parachutists were dropped on the heather. After the battle of Saint Marcel, some of them were hidden in surrounding farms.
literature
- Philippe Gouézin: Les Mégalithes du Morbihan intérieur. Des Landes de Lanvaux au nord du département , Collection Patrimoine archéologique de Bretagne, Institut culturel de Bretagne, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie-Préhistoire (UPR 403 CNRS), Université de Rennes I, 1994
Web links
- Olivier Porteau: Ruralité et Résistance civile au pays des Landes de Lanvaux 1940-1944 , in En Envor 1 (2013). (French)
Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ N , 2 ° 27 ′ W