CALLOT, THE PLEASURES OF THE LOW TIDE

Callot is a peninsula on low tide and island on high tide.Today one counts only nine families on the island. Formerly, it was populated with many callotians (a hundred at the beginning of the century).The island lived in autarky, with the liking of the flood and the ebb, the few animals, and the cultivated fields . The sea makes it possible to the men to ensure their substance. 21 years ago, Callot had even its own school, created in 1936.
Mainly made up of small creeks dunes, gorses, fields and pastures, callot extends on 3 kms of length and measures from 15 to 300 m of width.
On the climax of the island, you will be able to visit the charming small vault of Notre Dame de callot whose history realities are closely related to the invasion of the island by the Danish in the end of the 5th century. They invested the island to store there the loots resulting from plunderings to which they were devoted on the continent. Until the day when the Breton chief, Rivallon Murmaczon decided to launch an attack against the Danish pirate Korsolde.
According to the legend of Albert-le-Grand; before launching the attack, he requested the All-Powerful Virgin, so that she ensures his protection during the battle.
He promised her to build a sanctuary on the site of the tent of the Danish chief, if he will be the victorious in this fight, left victorious this fight There. In the year 513, Murmaczon posed the first stone of the small vault: while the Bretons baptized the island: Enez-itron-Variar- Galloud (Notre Dame de Toute Puissance). Since this time, the vault constitutes a place of pilgrimage. In the XVII th century, the morlaisian corsairs greeted it of a blow of gun, when they left the port to attack the English ships.
During the revolution, it was damaged and transformed into military station, between 1801 and 1808, on request of the vice-chancellor Mr. Nédellec and the Mayor; the vault was restored.