Les Amis de Carnac focus on the Saint-Michel chapel, a landmark above the town’s ancient burial mound. Cyrille Chaigneau traces the building’s past, the stories attached to the hill and the details usually kept behind closed doors. The visit also highlights a mural by Breton artist Alice Pasco, turning a familiar silhouette into a more precise piece of Carnac memory.
Tag: local-history
Hospices Archives and First Wine Sale
Olga Ponchet of the Côte-d’Or Departmental Archives traces the beginnings of the Hospices de Beaune wine sale. Correspondence from Hôtel-Dieu bursar Joseph Pétasse and catalogues of vintages reveal how the auction took shape. Plans, registers, photographs and eyewitness accounts place the wine event within the hospital’s changing work in healthcare.
Plumes & Archives Calligraphy Workshop
Plumes & Archives brings palaeography and calligraphy together through the Hôtel-Dieu’s hospital records. Participants inspect parchments, lettering and administrative registers before reproducing a passage in an old-fashioned hand. Andréa Hautevelle, who oversees the Hospices Civils de Beaune archives, leads this practical encounter with the institution’s written history.
Mon Hôtel-Dieu: Burgundian Hospitality
Julie Leflaive of Maison Olivier Leflaive leads a visit through the Hôtel-Dieu’s history of Burgundian hospitality. Rooms and objects prompt personal memories, connecting the hospital’s practice of care with her own experience. The conversation follows the themes of care, wine and bread, moving between the monument’s public history and the stories of people attached to it.
Trail des 2 Salines
Trail des 2 Salines follows the old brine pipeline through the Furieuse and Loue valleys, finishing at the Saline Royale. Runners can tackle a solo or relay trail, while the Gabelous route crosses forests and vineyards from Port-Lesney. Hiking and Nordic walking options follow the same salt-making landscape, with routes for both novice and experienced participants.
Fêtes de la Vigne Archives
Original documents from Dijon’s Municipal Archives trace the origins and changing character of Les Fêtes de la Vigne. The exhibition examines the festival’s roots in Burgundy’s wine-growing traditions alongside local folklore. Its international and multicultural connections emerge through the records, with guided visits offering another way into this chapter of Dijon’s public life.
Baisers ravivés at Abbaye du Relec
At Abbaye du Relec, historic postcards from the “Bons Baisers de Plounéour” exhibition reopen a window onto Plounéour-Ménez and Breton life a century ago. A focused visit draws out details in the photographs, captions and messages, from familiar landscapes to the gestures and routines of local communities. Seen within the former abbey, these small pieces of correspondence connect private memory, regional history and the changing image of rural Finistère.
Perros-Guirec European Heritage Days
Journées Européennes du Patrimoine in Perros-Guirec places maritime memory at the center of the town program. The old Ploumanac’h lifeboat recalls sea-rescue courage, while the semaphore and films on goémoniers and Sept-Îles lighthouse keepers point to coastal professions. Guided outings with Armor Navigation add the Perros shoreline itself as a heritage subject.
Introduction to the Breton Language
This informal workshop introduces Breton pronunciation through the surnames and place names encountered across the region. A Breton-speaking volunteer helps participants hear characteristic sounds and understand how names preserve clues to language, landscape and local history. Open to all ages, the session makes a first encounter with Breton practical and memorable, using familiar words to reveal the cultural knowledge held within everyday speech.
Sardinières Strike Centenary at Île-Tudy
Île-Tudy marks the Sardinières strike through a public walk rooted in work songs, oral memory and harbour-side civic places. Historical accounts by Serge Duigou, collected testimonies and the choir Les sardines à l’île connect the procession with the women whose labour shaped Brittany’s sardine ports. The closing bal traditionnel and exhibition carry that social history into music, dance and community memory.