pointe du raz

Your reception on the site .
Each year, nearly a million visitors coming from all Europe, come to admire one of the most famous sites of the occident. Discover the richness of the natural environment, the fauna, the flora,the techniques of revegetalisation implemented within the framework of the program of rehabilitation. We accomodate you at the House of the site to discover one of the most beautiful panorama of the world.

Penn ar bed, in the end of the world
Pointe du Raz is a masterpiece of nature, vis-a-vis to the impetuous Raz de sein. Alone or accompanied, your steps will carry out you to the littoral path between moor and ocean, and there in front of you, discover the size of the panorama of the famous Raz de Sein ,which is well-known by the sailors, the attractive island of Sein,and the sea and the sky in perpetual movement. Before the visit of the nearby ornithological reserve, you will continue your search of emotions while going along the Baie des Trépassés.
On the beach, by scanning the horizon, you will seek to perceive the gleams of the town of Ys. Then by mentioning Pointe du Van, you will continue your harvest of authenticity through Cap Sizun, which is an area that has thousand and one attractions.

Cap-Sizun
On the paths of the wild coast. The northern coast of Cap-Sizun is one of the most wild of Finistère and offers a unspoilable view on the bay of Douarnerez and the peninsula of Crozon. Numerous points or sides of this jewel were acquired besides by the Department of Finistère and the Conservatory of the coastline. The natural reserve of Goulien Cap-Sizun is a privileged place to be able to observe and get informed on the richness of the littoral environments which make it up. Here reproduce rare birds on our coasts like the kittiwake and the guillemot ,without forgetting the Pyrrhocorax. But more inside the grounds or on the less abrupt southern coast, the Cape conceals other environments worthy of interests, whether they are the wetlands, wood or the dunes.

The island of Sein
After having crossed the famous Raz de sein, you will discover the mysterious small island, hardly emerging from the ocean. You will be charmed by the narrow lanes of its village, the curiosity of its landscape worked by the wind and its legendary megaliths which stand up here and and there between the mosaic of the swifted pieces.

Audierne, Plouhinec, leisures, gastronomy
To the richnesses of the ground are added the pleasures of the sea. In Audierne as in Plouhinec, each day the boats unload the products of their exclusively coastal fishing.
Shellfish and fish are the gastronomical specialities of the tables of the Cap-Sizun, of which the famous bar of line of raz de Sein. You will be able also to visit in Audierne, the largest fish pond of shellfish in Europe or to attend the sale by auction in the port of Poulgoazec and to enjoy the moments of relaxation on the thin sand beaches of Cap-Sizun, but also to know the joys of the water sports or the sailing pleasures.

The rear country
Small city of character at the edge of the inlet of Goyen, Pont-croix, capital of Cap-Sizun, boasts of a rich civil and religious architectural heritage. To discover also: Saint - Magloire in Mahalon Saint-Clet in Cléden-Cap-Sizun, Notre-Dame de kérinec in Poullan. Saint-Tugen in Primelin and Notre-Dame de Comfort.