Le Conquet
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Le Conquet Konk-Leon |
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Finistère | |
| Arrondissement | Brest | |
| Canton | Saint-Renan | |
| Community association | Pays d'Iroise | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 21 ′ N , 4 ° 46 ′ W | |
| height | 0-51 m | |
| surface | 8.45 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,713 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 321 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 29217 | |
| INSEE code | 29040 | |
| Website | http://www.leconquet.fr/ | |
 View across the harbor to Le Conquet |
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Le Conquet ( Breton Konk-Leon ) is a French commune with 2,713 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in north-western Brittany in the Finistère department .
location
The community is located directly on the Atlantic coast on the Côte des Abers . Brest is 20 kilometers east and Paris about 520 kilometers east (as the crow flies ).
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 1891 | 1811 | 1881 | 2.011 | 2149 | 2408 | 2573 | 2713 |
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Infrastructure
Le Conquet is a holiday resort with a small fishing and ferry port. From here there is a ferry connection to the offshore islands of Molène and Ouessant in the main season . There is a regular bus connection to Brest.
The European route 50 (Brest- Rennes ) and the European route 60 (Brest- Nantes ) end at Brest . Brest train station is the terminus of the TGV Atlantique to Paris and the regional train lines in the direction of Rennes and Nantes. The Aéroport de Brest Bretagne regional airport is located near the city of Brest .
From 1903 to 1932, Le Conquet was also connected to Brest by a narrow-gauge railway.
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Le Conquet
In addition to some worth seeing churches and chapels from the last centuries, the small port and the lighthouse that characterizes the townscape, the two forts Fort Saint-Louis and Fort de l'Îlette de Kermorvan, dating from the mid-19th century, are the most important tourist attractions developed holiday resort.
Personalities
- Guillaume Brouscon , 16th century cartographer
- Belshazzar Hacquet , (1739 / 1740-1815), natural scientist
- Ernest Le Guerranic (1831–1915), architect.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 1423-1426.
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