Guides walk visitors over the Paner enclosure at Saint-Tugdual, where the archaeology service has just closed a second consecutive summer of excavation. What they set out has not been published anywhere: the findings of that season, taken trench by trench. N. Coustet-Larroque and J-P Eludut lead the visit, which leaves from the Place de la mairie. The Carolingian enclosure itself is the subject, and the reading of it is the part that has changed.
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Points de vue sur le château de Dinan
The château de Dinan opens for a sensory visit that works on perception instead of chronology. Optical illusions unsettle the eye, hidden places are opened, and exceptional panoramas are reached. Visitors read the château through the eyes of those who crossed it, moving from one point of view to the next. It belongs to Les Minutes Bleues, the Côtes-d’Armor programme that opens the département’s patrimoine in the blue light of dusk.
The île Vierge and its keepers, guided in breton
This walk on the île Vierge is delivered in breton, and its own announcement is written in that language before any other. The guide talks through the island’s history, its lighthouses and the life of the diwallerien, the keepers, in days gone by. The group gathers at Kastell Ac’h to take the boat, then has half an hour guided and half an hour free on the island. The tall lighthouse itself is not entered and the party stays between four and nine.
Aber Wrac’h Odyssée: the lighthouse route
A small semi-rigid leaves the port of l’Aber Wrac’h at Landéda for an exclusive landing on the Île Vierge. Passengers pass the four lighthouses of the archipelago, among them the Lanvaon tower, and learn how coastal buoyage works. The island adds an outdoor exhibition, “From builders to renovators”, paired with the skipper’s account of the towers. Hervé, grandson of a semaphorist of the Aber Wrac’h, carries the memory of the shipwreckers.
Des ruines au musée, abbaye de Landévennec
La visite accompagnée conduit du musée départemental aux vestiges de l’ancienne abbaye de Landévennec, l’un des plus anciens monastères de Bretagne. Les salles déroulent le résultat de 25 ans de fouilles et 1 500 ans d’histoire bretonne. Le parcours suit ensuite l’évolution architecturale du site, de l’époque carolingienne à sa reconstruction romane. Il s’achève au jardin des simples, reconstitué d’après des graines retrouvées en fouille.
Dinan se savoure à l’heure bleue
Les Minutes Bleues walks a small group along Dinan’s medieval ramparts as the light goes out of the lanes. A guide carries the route, folding the town’s history into local anecdote. It closes inside the walls at a fine grocery, where regional flavours are tasted and shared. The festival stages each encounter at a listed heritage site of the Côtes d’Armor, in the blue light of dawn or dusk. Walking shoes are asked for.
Le mystère du Haras, Haras national de Lamballe
The Haras national de Lamballe lets teams behind the scenes to work out what became of an archive that has gone missing. The clues sit among the stud farm’s historic buildings, and progress takes exploration, reasoning and pooling what each team has spotted. Children from eight take part with an adult beside them. The hunt belongs to Les Minutes Bleues, whose programme also opens the Abbaye de Beauport and the Château de La Hunaudaye.
Pouldu blockhouse, an Atlantic Wall visit
The Clohars-Carnoët Memory and Heritage Association opens a 775 m3 casemate of the Atlantic Wall above Grands Sables beach at Le Pouldu. Inside the restored artillery hall, the troop shelter and the rear firing post, panels and period weapons and uniforms set out the Breton Resistance, the fighting of the Lorient Pocket and the Laïta Front. A guide leads the round, or it can be walked alone. A booklet on the blockhouse is on sale at the door.
Empreintes du crépuscule: linocut at Saint-Thélo
At nightfall the Maison des Toiles at Saint-Thélo opens the house of a linen-cloth merchant for a linocut workshop. Visitors read its architecture detail by detail in the failing light, then cut a block and print what they took from it. Their prints are set beside the work of Jeanne Malivel, the artist who worked in woodcut. The sittings belong to Les Minutes Bleues, which opens twenty-four heritage sites of the Côtes d’Armor in blue light.
Taverniers d’un soir au château de la Hunaudaye
The château de la Hunaudaye hands its Taverne over to visitors for one sitting of the festival Les Minutes Bleues. Each team pits its knowledge against the others and calls on creativity, exploration and strategy. Shakers in hand, the players mix the best breuvage sans alcool they can manage. The team that comes out ahead is declared Tavernier du château. The festival opens the hauts-lieux of Côtes d’Armor under the blue light of dawn or dusk.