Plonévez-du-Faou
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Finistère | |
| Arrondissement | Chateaulin | |
| Canton | Carhaix-Plouguer | |
| Community association | Haute Cornouaille | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 15 ′ N , 3 ° 50 ′ W | |
| height | 50-275 m | |
| surface | 80.73 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,105 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 26 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 29530 | |
| INSEE code | 29175 | |
 Saint-Pierre church |
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Plonévez-du-Faou ( Breton Plonevez-ar-Faou ) is a French commune in western Brittany in the Finistère department with 2105 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).
location
The place is about 35 kilometers east of the Atlantic coast north of the river Aulne . Quimper is 35 kilometers southwest, the city and port of Brest 50 kilometers northwest and Paris about 460 kilometers east (as the crow flies ).
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2016 |
| Residents | 3319 | 3063 | 2733 | 2515 | 2257 | 2206 | 2106 | 2105 |
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Attractions
- Saint-Pierre church
- Chapel of St-Herbot with Passion Window, Martyrdom window of St. Lawrence and Judgment window of Ivo Hélory
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Plonévez-du-Faou
traffic
At Châteaulin , Briec and Rosporden there are exits on the expressway E 60 Brest- Nantes and at Morlaix and Landivisiau in the north on the E 50 Brest- Rennes .
Regional trains stop in Châteaulin, Rosporden and Quimper on the Brest-Nantes line and in Pleyber-Christ and Morlaix on the Brest- Rennes line . The train station of Brest is the terminus of the TGV Atlantique to Paris.
The Aéroport de Brest Bretagne regional airport is located near Brest .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 246-253.
