Miniac Morvan
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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 | |
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
- 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
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