Tréguennec

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Tréguennec
Coat of arms of Tréguennec
Tréguennec (France)
Tréguennec
region Brittany
Department Finistère
Arrondissement Quimper
Canton Plonéour Lanvern
Community association Pays Bigouden Sud
Coordinates 47 ° 54 ′  N , 4 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′  N , 4 ° 20 ′  W
height 0-53 m
surface 9.61 km 2
Residents 318 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 33 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 29720
INSEE code

Notre-Dame-de-Pitié church

Tréguennec ( Tregeneg in Breton ) is a French commune in the Finistère department with 318 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017). The place is located in the southwest of Brittany on the Atlantic coast .

Pierre de Saint Vio or la barque de saint Vio of Tréguennec

location

Quimper is 20 kilometers northeast, Brest 55 kilometers north and Paris about 500 kilometers east (as the crow flies ).

traffic

At Quimper the next exits are on the expressway E 60 (Brest- Nantes ) and a regional train station on the mostly parallel railway line.

The Brest train station is the terminus of the TGV Atlantique to Paris and the airports Aéroport de Brest Bretagne near Brest and Aéroport de Lorient Bretagne Sud near Lorient are the nearest regional airports .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2017
Residents 485 399 301 274 303 342 337 318
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Notre-Dame-de-Pitié church

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Tréguennec

There are numerous remains of the Atlantic Wall on the Atlantic coast . The late medieval Chapel of St-Vio is located in the dunes on the coast . To the east of the town center is the late Gothic church of Notre-Dame-de-Pitié .

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 1258-1264.

Web links

Commons : Tréguennec  - collection of images, videos and audio files