quimper

IN 1500 YEARS, Quimper worked the stone, transformed the granite into lace, painted its earthenwares, embroidered its suits with pearls and with ribbons, filled its museums and lived appropriately and with its river, which rises and comes down at the rate of tides. The always alive city meets history everywhere and centuries have mixed with it their marks by keeping its charm, its harmony, and its merry exuberance. Vocation trade registered since the Middle - Age in the name of places continues, making of Quimper with its aimated streets, its fairs and markets, its industrial tourism a citkey of the economy of the region.

QUIMPER grew richer with 6 communities which surround itit is nature in all its variety that offers itself to the walker throughout the hollow roads and throughout marked out paths of this green belt. On foot, on horseback, in mountain bike, in kayak or in canoe on Odet which connects the countryside with the sea, the discovery of a very rich patrimony makes also a part of the journey. On the road, there is always a manor house, a sacred fountain, or on the green herb a granite openwork chapel the inside of which adorns itself with most surprising polychrome and gold decorations. At the end of the road, friendly lodging house insure you tranquillity and social interaction.