A 3 km walk sets out from the Château de la Hunaudaye at Plédéliac to meet the autumn sunrise. An immersive sound experience runs alongside the route, so the light and the sound arrive together. The group is capped at 20 walkers and the outing is open from the age of 8. It is one rendez-vous of the 5th Minutes Bleues, the Côtes d’Armor festival that opens 24 sites of natural and cultural patrimoine in the blue light of dawn or dusk.
Tag: heritage-sites
Les secrets du lin à l’hôtel des de Gaspern
Sidonie & Compagnie opens its doors around flax, one sitting of the Semaine du Tourisme Economique et des Savoir-Faire in Guingamp. Visitors push open the doors of the hôtel des de Gaspern, in the heart of the town, where the plant’s many faces are unfolded. Charlotte, a naturopathe working there, draws out what flax offers for wellbeing. The visit closes over a sweet creation that each person makes.
Quand l’Antiquité défie vos sens, à Coriosolis
The ArchéoMusée Coriosolis opens to a small booked group at the close of the blue hour. Its three immersive rooms are met by smell, touch and sound, not by labels. Corseul was the antique capital of the Coriosolites, and the collections come from digs on that territory. A headset sets the visitor beside Lelius, a young coriosolite, at a ceremony in the great sanctuary whose ruins stand on the site.
Il était une fois Bon-Repos, balade contée à l’abbaye
A told walk through the Abbaye de Bon-Repos, run by the Association des Compagnons de l’Abbaye de Bon-Repos. A story, a sound and a making moment carry the house’s own history into the dark. The senses do the work, not a commentary, and families with young children are who it is built for. The walk sits inside Les Minutes Bleues, the festival that opens the Côtes d’Armor’s natural and cultural high places under blue light at dawn and dusk.
Le Mystère Abgrall: a trail through Guerlesquin
Guerlesquin hands over a game booklet and a problem: Erwann Abgrall, a wealthy Breton eccentric, has vanished, leaving an immense fortune of murky origin, no will and no heir. The booklet turns each walker into an investigator, reading the heritage of the Petite Cité de Caractère to crack the riddles. Maître Braouzec, a notary in Rennes, carries the succession. The trail covers twenty-four Breton towns of the Petites Cités de Caractère network.
Aber Wrac’h Odyssée: La Route des Phares
Four lighthouses of the Aber Wrac’h archipelago set the route: the two towers of the Île Vierge, the light of the Île Wrac’h and the Lanvaon tower. Hervé skippers the boat, grandson of a semaphorist at Aber Wrac’h and from a family of Plouguerneau boat builders. He explains how lighthouses and coastal buoyage work, and carries the memory of shipwrecks and shipwreckers. The run passes the Wrac’h, Stagadon and Vierge islands close to the water.
Les églises Beaumanoir, une épopée en Trégor
A mantle of churches and chapels rose over the western bishopric of Tréguier and the eastern fringe of Léon at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. Tradition credits their features to the Beaumanoir workshop in Morlaix, and this travelling exhibition makes the case on 15 panels. The Saint Nicolas chapel in Plufur and the parish enclosure in Trédrez carry it. The Pays d’art et d’histoire du Trégor built it with Morlaix Communauté.
Chapelle Saint-Quirin and its altarpiece, visit in LSF
The Culture and Heritage Department of the Pays d’art et d’histoire Auray Quiberon Terre Atlantique opens the chapelle Saint-Quirin at Brech to visitors. The sober classical building is marking its 350th anniversary, and it houses one of the finest altarpieces in Morbihan, from the late 17th century. A French sign language interpreter accompanies the guide. Les incontournables also opens megaliths and chapels elsewhere on the territory.
Des monuments bien vivants: Trégrom war memorial
A guide of the Pays d’art et d’histoire du Trégor leads a commented visit of the monument aux morts of Trégrom, by the Église Saint-Brandan. The reading moves from the stone to the memorial practices that settled in after the Great War. The series title, Des monuments bien vivants, argues that a village monument is still in use. Lannion-Trégor Communauté holds that label from the Ministry of Culture, and prints its season in Breton too.
Geological Walk from Tréhorenteuc to the Jardin aux Moines
Samuel Piriou, a geologist and guide, walks a five-kilometre route out of Tréhorenteuc into Brocéliande, reading the ground as he goes. Erratic blocks and rock outcrops carry the explanation, and maps account for the shape of the landscape. The route reaches the Jardin aux Moines, the megalithic site whose significance Le Géologue Ambulant interprets on the spot. Ancient heritage is described too, and places on the free outing must be booked.