Roscoff
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Roscoff Rosko |
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Finistère | |
| Arrondissement | Morlaix | |
| Canton | Saint-Pol-de-Léon | |
| Community association | Haut-Léon Community | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 44 ′ N , 3 ° 59 ′ W | |
| height | 0-58 m | |
| surface | 6.19 km 2 | |
| Residents | 3,404 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 550 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 29680 | |
| INSEE code | 29239 | |
| Website | http://www.roscoff.fr/ | |
Roscoff ( Breton Rosko ) is a 3,404 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) scoring French community in the Finistere region on the north coast of Brittany . The place has a historic town center and was a first center for thalassotherapy in the 19th century because of its mild sea climate . Roscoff has been an important ferry port for travelers to Great Britain , Ireland and the offshore Ile de Batz since the 1970s .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | 2017 |
| Residents | 3528 | 3339 | 3404 | 3581 | 3711 | 3550 | 3621 | 3404 |
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Culture and sights
Buildings
- Church Notre-Dame-de-Croaz-Batz
- Maria-Stuart-Haus, in which five-year-old Maria Stuart is said to have lived
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Roscoff
Museums
- Station biologique de Roscoff , marine institute with an aquarium
- Maison des Johnnies
Exotic botanical garden
Economy and Transport
Onions are an important agricultural product in the region. They are traditionally woven into braids and used to be used as ship's provisions, for example. Traders from Roscoff sold onions to England as flying traders . This is where the nickname Johnnies comes from, which is remembered in the small local museum Maison des Johnnies .
The fish wholesaler Viviers de Béganton is an internationally known trading center for seafood.
Today is the port destination and starting point for ferries of shipping companies Brittany Ferries and Irish Ferries across the English Channel and the Irish Sea . The nearby Île de Batz can also be reached .
Roscoff is at the western end of the EuroVelo 4 cycle route , which ends in Kiev . It is also on the EuroVelo 1 cycle route, which runs from the North Cape to Sagres in Portugal .
Today the tourist information is housed in the old lighthouse
View of Roscoff from St. Barbe's Chapel
View from the Île de Batz to Roscoff
Pier for ferries during high tide
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 1398-1403.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brittany Ferries connecting the worlds of the Celts | Roscoff and Plymouth . In: FrontRowSociety - The Magazine . May 18, 2017 ( frontrowsociety.net [accessed September 12, 2018]).