Plobannalec-Lesconil

Plobannalec-Lesconil ; Pornaleg-Leskon
region	Brittany
Department	Finistère
Arrondissement	Quimper
Canton	Pont-l'Abbé
Community association	Pays Bigouden Sud
Coordinates	47 ° 49 ′ N , 4 ° 14 ′ W Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ N , 4 ° 14 ′ W
height	0-27 m
surface	18.17 km 2
Residents	3,474 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	191 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	29740
INSEE code	29165
Website	http://www.plobannalec-lesconil.com/

Plobannalec-Lesconil ( Breton Pornaleg-Leskon ) is a French commune in the Finistère department with 3,474 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).

location

The place is located in the southwest of Brittany on the Atlantic coast . It belongs to the historic Cornouaille landscape .

Quimper is 22 kilometers northeast, Brest 64 kilometers north and Paris around 500 kilometers east (as the crow flies ).

traffic

At Quimper, the capital of the Finistère department, the next exit is on the E 60 expressway in the Brest-Nantes section and a train station on the mostly parallel railway line (TGV). Brest train station is the terminus of the TGV Atlantique from Paris.

The nearest regional airport, Quimper - Cornouaille, with connecting flights to Paris, is around 22 kilometers from Lesconil. Other regional airports are the Aéroport Brest-Bretagne and the Lorient Bretagne Sud airport near Lorient . Plobannalec-Lesconil is a double town: the sub-towns of Plobannalec (farming village) and Lesconil (fishing village with a small port) are three km apart. Nine kilometers away is the nearest town, Pont-l'Abbé , the main town in the area called Pays Bigouden (the land of the Bigoudens).

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2010	2017
Residents	2916	2831	2835	2844	3022	3007	3332	3474
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

The dolmen of Kervignon , the dolmen of Kervadol and the dolmen of Quélarn are megalithic structures near the municipality.

The Iron Age stele of Kervadol found here is kept in the Quimper Museum.

Plobannalec district

In the inland, historically rural and Catholic town of Plobannalec, the Église Saint Alour was built in 1876 and 1889, respectively. The namesake is the third bishop of Quimper Saint Alour (also Saint Alar or Alor de Quimper), who died in 462. The main entrance of this church was architecturally modeled on the main entrance of Notre Dame in Paris.

Lesconil district

The district of Lesconil is a fishing port. The inhabitants of this place used to be fishermen and sailors and not Catholic. Politically, the residents of Lesconil were left and gave their ships names such as Karl Marx , etc. The simple one is worth seeing

Église Notre Dame de la Mer
St-Brieuc de Plonivel , the medieval chapel of the Plonivel district
Manoir de Kerlut, now part of a holiday complex
Le sémaphore de Lesconil, a historical technical monument. The optical telegraph chain was first installed by Claude Chappe in France at the end of the 18th century .

The Phare ( men ar groaz ) of Lesconil. This lighthouse (Phare) was painted green. When a ship enters a fairway coming from sea, its right side is the starboard side and at the same time the starboard side of the fairway and is therefore marked in green.

The Fete de la langoustine in Lesconil takes place annually on the second Saturday in August at the port with around 15,000 visitors. In addition to shellfish dishes, a free open-air concert is offered.