Tréguennec
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region | Brittany | |
Department | Finistère | |
Arrondissement | Quimper | |
Canton | Plonéour Lanvern | |
Community association | Pays Bigouden Sud | |
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 | 29292 | |
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 .
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.