Miniac Morvan

Miniac Morvan
region	Brittany
Department	Ille-et-Vilaine
Arrondissement	Saint Malo
Canton	Dol-de-Bretagne
Community association	Pays de Saint-Malo
Coordinates	48 ° 31 ′  N , 1 ° 54 ′  W Coordinates: 48 ° 31 ′  N , 1 ° 54 ′  W
height	2-68 m
surface	31.03 km 2
Residents	3,931 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	127 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	35540
INSEE code	35179
Website	http://www.miniac-morvan.fr
Miniac-Morvan Town Hall

Miniac-Morvan ( Breton : Minieg-Morvan , Gallo : Meinyac-Morvan ) is a French municipality with 3931 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine in the region of Brittany ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Saint-Malo and the canton of Dol-de-Bretagne .

geography

Miniac-Morvan is located about 20 kilometers south-southeast of Saint-Malo . Miniac-Morvan is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Saint-Père-Marc-en-Poulet in the north, Saint-Guinoux in the northeast, Plerguer in the east, Le Tronchet in the southeast, Mesnil-Roc'h in the south, Pleudihen-sur-Rance in the west and Châteauneuf-d'Ille-et-Vilaine in the northwest.

The national route 176 runs through the municipality .

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2012
Residents	2,290	2,244	2.161	2,595	2,815	2,784	3,280	3,738

Attractions

Saint-Pierre church

• Stone Ave. Four-ès-Feins from the Neolithic monument historique since 1965
• Saint-Pierre church
• Notre-Dame-de-Toute-Puissance chapel at Miniac Castle (built from 1654 to 1656), rebuilt after being destroyed
• Old chapels in the villages of Bourgneuf (built at the end of the 12th century), Langle, Le Frêche (built in the 16th / 17th centuries) and La Bouglaye as well as in the old town center ( Notre-Dame-de-Grâce built from the old church) and Chapel Immaculée-Conception, built in 1842
• Saint-Colomban de la Mare priory, built in 1186, then abandoned, rebuilt in the 15th and 17th centuries
• Priory Saint-Grégoire in Miniac, mentioned in 1161, today a stone cross marks the former church
• Calvaire
• Maison la Charité , founded in 1757 by the La Sagesse sisterhood
• Bas-Miniacaus Castle from the 15th century, with alterations from the 17th and 18th centuries
• Haut-Gouillon castle from the 15th century
• Launay-Quinouart mansion from 1480
• Old mansions
• Old infirmary
• Bas-Miniac (watermill), Beillac and Guillon (windmills) mills

Allée couverte Four-ès-Feines

Personalities

• Thérèse Fantou (1747–1794), nun, beatified in 1920

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84234-072-8 , pp. 401-406.

Web links

Commons : Miniac-Morvan  - collection of images, videos and audio files