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This guided tour in Breton explores Lucien Pouëdras – La mémoire du peintre at Domaine départemental de la Roche-Jagu. The language of the visit matters as much as the artworks, placing the painter’s rural memory inside a Breton-speaking frame. The tour links visual art, regional language and the estate’s heritage setting, giving visitors a precise way to approach Pouëdras without flattening the exhibition into a standard gallery visit.

À terre en mer, les îles de Michel Thersiquel presents 65 black-and-white photographs by the Breton photographer at the Port-musée in Douarnenez. The retrospective focuses on daily life in the Ponant islands, including Batz, Belle-Île, Sein, Groix and Ouessant. Work, domestic scenes and island environments appear with a direct eye, giving maritime communities a documentary presence beyond postcard imagery.

Guided visits to Moulin de Crec’h Olen open a restored local mill in Ploulec’h to the public. Volunteers explain its tower construction, working machinery and petit pied architecture, a form associated with northern Brittany. The tour links practical engineering with rural production memory and the collective effort required to maintain the building.

Pardon Saint Tudec in Landudec follows a Breton religious pattern of chapel devotion and communal celebration. The gathering honours Saint Tudec through mass, local ritual and village sociability. Its interest comes from the continuity of the pardon form itself: sacred place, named saint and shared community time remain connected in one public tradition.

Exposition Sacrés Trésors presents exceptional works from the sanctuary collections of Sainte-Anne-d’Auray. Statues, paintings, silverware and Breton costumes reveal gifts offered to Saint Anne by pilgrims from many parts of the world. Video, audio, games and models place four centuries of devotional art within the history and living culture of one of Brittany’s major pilgrimage sites.

Exposition Chapelle Sainte Anne places contemporary art inside a small Breton chapel whose restoration remains part of the story. Pastels, paintings, watercolors, graphic pieces and photography share the space, so the building reads as both gallery and protected local monument. The seasonal program also keeps the Pardon Ste Anne and the Fête des Peintres in view, linking Saint-Broladre’s religious setting with living artistic practice.

The guided tour of Saint-Malo explores the Cité corsaire, its ramparts and the seafaring identity of the walled city. Privateers, major voyages and a long tradition of civic independence place the port at the centre of French and Breton maritime history. Conducted in French for a limited group, the visit explains why the phrase neither French nor Breton, but Malouin remains attached to the city.

Au Coin du Phare brings an open-air Breton storytelling gathering to the ruins of Landunvez’s old semaphore. Local tales unfold against the coastal view as participants identify the lighthouses that appear across the Pays d’Iroise. The combination of oral tradition, navigation landmarks and a weathered maritime site gives the evening a distinctive sense of place.

Les Rues en Scène transforms Carantec into a route for free street arts and live performance. A poetic storytelling walk leads into Miror, a dance and circus encounter between a performer and a suit of steel, followed by the aerial mechanics of La Panne. Cie C’Hoari connects skateboarding with Breton culture in Da Gouskate, while La Volte-Cirque invites the crowd into a record-chasing giant seesaw act. The varied programme makes the town itself part of the performance.

Pardon de la Clarté centres on the Notre-Dame de la Clarté chapel in Saint-Vennec, where worship is followed by a procession to the fountain. The pilgrimage belongs to the tradition known as Pardon an Teir Vari, linking three Marian sanctuaries in southern Finistère. Pilgrims still dip handkerchiefs in the reputed fountain water and touch their eyes, preserving one of the observance’s most distinctive devotional gestures.