Ploudiry
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region | Brittany | |
Department | Finistère | |
Arrondissement | Brest | |
Canton | Pont-de-Buis-lès-Quimerch | |
Community association | Pays de Landerneau-Daoulas | |
Coordinates | 48 ° 27 ′ N , 4 ° 9 ′ W | |
height | 23-191 m | |
surface | 27.19 km 2 | |
Residents | 952 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 35 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 29800 | |
INSEE code | 29180 | |
Saint Pierre Church and Ossuary of Ploudiry |
Ploudiry ( Plouziri in Breton ) is a French commune with 952 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in western Brittany in the Finistère department and belongs to the canton of Pont-de-Buis-lès-Quimerch .
location
The place is located around 25 kilometers south of the Atlantic coast at the entrance to the English Channel . The city and port of Brest is 26 kilometers to the west and Paris about 470 kilometers to the east (as the crow flies ).
history
The parish was first mentioned in writing in 1173 under the name Ploediri .
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year | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | 2017 |
Residents | 770 | 677 | 736 | 822 | 808 | 896 | 952 |
traffic
At Landerneau and Landivisiau there are the next exits on the expressway E 50 towards Rennes and at Daoulas one on the E 60 towards Nantes . Brest train station is the terminus of the TGV Atlantique to Paris and regional trains stop in Landerneau towards Morlaix / Rennes and Quimper / Nantes.
The Aéroport de Brest Bretagne regional airport is located near the city of Brest .
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Ploudiry
The parish of Ploudiry is made of two-tone granite. The parish church of Saint-Pierre was built in its current form between 1854 and 1857 after the tower collapsed in 1850 and destroyed part of the church. Of the previous church, only the porch from 1655 remained.
The Calvaire is here in the cemetery. The ossuary from 1635 is classified as a monument historique .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 995-998.