finistère

Figurehead of Brittany, Finisterre counts among these regions in which one goes for the desire and where one returns to the appeal of the heart. Legendary as the city of Ys, powerful on its granite pedestal, this thoroughbred land moves the passer-by, instigates the thirst of discovery. Soil and culture have permanently meeting with the sanctuaries of the nature and the patrimony, the festivities of yesterday and current. Emotion is your guide.
At the end of the world exists a land dressed by streams and forests, lived by a real or legendary fauna, embroidered with a plentiful vegetation, irrigated from the North to the South and from the east to the west by ample rivers, decorated with elegant monuments and loaded with history there. No doubt, this Finistère
Well source of life, pleasures and the good to be.

LIGHTHOUSE OF BRITTANY
Natural harbour defender, low valleys of courses of water covered by the sea encircled with mills, passionate estuaries, sandy lengths, striking " ends of the world " (Raz, Saint Mathieu), vertiginous cliffs, rocky horizons of hydrangeas: Finisterre concentrates the vocabulary of the coast. there is for all the tastes here from Locquirec to Pouldu, coastal trip of more than 1000 km which crosses the road of legends, indomitable peninsula of Crozon, the country bigouden, its headgears and The Torche, the lands of the South, those of Gauguin and the impressionists. Sailors' and farmers' Earth who look proudly towards islands, from Batz to Glénan passing among riggings, at paradise of future veils.

DESTINATION OF PLEASURES
One enters it as to a good book, or still, in the style of an oenologist sampling a great vineyard, curious, attentive, to be better seduced. Each one will find his pleasure. The greatest department the West is too different not to be unique. The blue of Armor, omnipresent, that of Mathurin Méheut, is next, at some jumps of flea, to the inside emerald of Argoat, as around the trembling cliff in Huelgoat. between the two, nature declines its colours of moors, heath and peat, around the two internal massifs, Arrée's mountains and its bewitching basin of Yeun Elez - that less than 50 km separate from the exotic garden and from microclimate of the island of Batz - the Black Mountains, on the other side of the luxuriant valley of the Aulne, at the doors of Cornouaille.

This variety of soils is reflected in the food, as to refresh the brave who would try to cover 4.700 km of coastal paths. Specialities shape countries, the kig ha farz of the coast of Legends, Camaret's coset , Plougastel's strawberries, Douarnenez's kouign - mercy, the scampis of Guilvinec, Quimper's pancakes - laces, Bélon's oysters, pancakes of Bridge - Aven, Roscoff's onions, without mentioning Fouesnant's cider, Morlaix's beer. It is the soil of the savours that incite to travel!

EARTH OF PRIDE
Country of traditions, Finistère is not an open museum. Here nature breathes, culture sparkles in accord bagadou and never identity showed itself with such spirit. One can not grow tired of discovering feasts assembling ceaselessly renewed, festival of Cornouaille in Quimper, blue dribble feast in Concarneau, assemblings of old riggings, On Thursdays in the port in Brest, Arts in the street in Morlaix, Old Ploughs in Carhaix... Others will focus their attention on the wealth of castles and manor houses (Trévarez, Kerjean, Kernault) and abbeys (Daoulas, Relec). The devotion of forgiveness, as in Saint - Anne la Palud, knocks as so it has this power to sublimate the soul of religious monuments of which the parochial enclosures are the most succeeded expression. There is still there this Celtic mark, foundations of which go back up to the Prehistory, these megaliths and dolmens, which conjugate with the inheritance of the cities of the Middle Age, these alleys, these houses with half-timberings.
Yes Finisterre is well the ultimate country, " head of the world " as its Breton name underlines it : Penn ar Bed

THE SUMMER, TO REFRESH ONE’S SELF
" I return, in this centre of vocations of Brignogan every year, because I am sure to find there all the ingredients to make a success of our vocations . The sea, the dunes of fine sand, the sunsets … The frame is magnificent and one feels so near the nature! The children are happy. They spend their day in the water, to play on the beach, to bathe or to fish for shrimps. I rest myself, I enjoy landscape, I take the sun, I forget everything! Atmosphere in the centre is domestic and warm. We know one another a little, the children find their friends from one year to the next. When urge takes us, we participate to animations. Good moments are spent; one gets acquainted with the newcomers. For me, it is really ideal holidays ". Odile Cavarec, Calvados

GOOD IDEA ALL YEAR LONG
On the edges of Aven, Gauguin displays its easel. Solitary lover, Prévert roams the street of Siam. In the wide, the Dundee of Johnny de Roscoff crosses the trail of a giant of the seas of modern times. In Douarnenez's bay, streams withdraw but Ys is definitively gobbled up. Axe and Viviane exchanges sweet secrets in the edge of an enchanted forest, a proudly raised menhir greets the rising day, a druid makes off in secret. Stivell shells the crystalline sounds of a Celtic harp, Denez claims a caravanserai a year diskan, and everywhere, Black Mountains in Aber Wrac a hour, of the Point of Raz in Morlaix's bay, Finisterre lives, sings and dances, grants its steps at the rate of the bell-ringers and parade majestically in a spectacular of colours...
Finisterre, earth of creation, adventures and of explorers, earth of music, holiday and romance, and its heart beats since millenniums. It is very alive, rich and authentic, prints of tradition and modernity, proud of its roots and opened on the world.
Finisterre is not engaged, it is allowed discover. Nature, landscapes, history and patrimony, arts, legends, traditions.... To guide your steps, lovers share some secrets of their passion: Jean-Yves Lesouëf, director of the botanical conservatoire of Brest, Annie Le Men, specialist of the patrimony, Didier Squiban, musician and composer. More than a tourist brochure, this guide is a vital lead who finds a multitude of roads of access, as so many initiatory courses in one of the jewels of the Celtic countries.