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Concarneau Cornouaille Agglomération
Concarneau Cornouaille Agglomération is the ''communauté d'agglomération'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the town of Concarneau. It is located in the Finistère department, in the Brittany region, northwestern France. Created in 2012, its seat is in Concarneau.CA Concarneau Cornouaille Agglomération (N° SIREN : 242900769) BANATIC. Retrieved 20 November 2022. Its area is 371.3 km2. Its population was 50,975 in 2019, of which 19,816 in Concarneau proper.Comparateur de territoire [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concarneau
Concarneau (, meaning ''Bay of Cornouaille'') is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. Concarneau is bordered to the west by the Baie de La Forêt. The town has two distinct areas: the modern town on the mainland and the medieval Ville Close, a walled town on a long island in the centre of the harbour. Historically, the old town was a centre of shipbuilding, and its ramparts date from the 14th century. The Ville Close is now devoted to tourism with many restaurants and shops aimed at tourists. However restraint has been shown in resisting the worst excesses of souvenir shops. Also in the Ville Close is the fishing museum. The Ville Close is connected to the town by a bridge and at the other end a ferry to the village of Lanriec on the other side of the harbour. Events In August the town holds the annual ''Fête des Filets Bleus'' (Festival of the blue nets). The festival, named after the traditional blue nets of Concarneau's fishing fleet, is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melgven
Melgven (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. Geography Climate Melgven has a oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification ''Cfb''). The average annual temperature in Melgven is . The average annual rainfall is with December as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around , and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Melgven was on 9 August 2003; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 17 January 1985. Population Inhabitants of Melgven are called ''Melgvinois'' in French. Sights * A gothic church from the 14th century at the center of the village *Chapelle de Bonne Nouvelle dedicated to notre Dame de Bonne Nouvelle *Chapelle de la Trinité built at the 16th century by the atelier de Saint Herbot Gallery File:Chapelle Notre-Dame de Coat-an-Poudou (1).jpg, Chapelle Notre-Dame de Coat-an-Poudou File:Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul (Melgven) - 2.jpg, Égli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trégunc
Trégunc (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany, western France. Population Inhabitants of Trégunc are called in French ''Trégunois'' or ''Tréguncois''. Cultural heritage * Saint-Philibert's chapel (Trégunc): 16th-century chapel. * Château de Kerminaouet Breton language In 2008, 7.19% of primary-school children attended bilingual schools. ''Ofis ar Brezhoneg''''Enseignement bilingue''/ref> Notable people * Jeanne Boutbien, French-Senegalese swimmer, 2020 Summer Olympian Gallery File:Église paroissiale Saint-Marc à Trégunc.jpg File:Église paroissiale Saint-Marc à Trégunc - Intérieur.jpg File:Bâtiment de la Société nationale de sauvetage en mer à Trévignon.jpg File:Chapelle Notre-Dame de Kerven (5).jpg File:Chapelle Notre-Dame de Kerven (2).jpg File:Trévignon (Trégunc) 2.jpg See also *Communes of the Finistère department The following is a list of the 277 communes of the Finistère department of France. The communes cooper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tourch
Tourch () is a Communes of France, commune in the Finistère Departments of France, department of Brittany (administrative region), Brittany in north-western France. Population Inhabitants of Tourch are called in French language, French ''Tourchois''. See also *Communes of the Finistère department References External links Official websiteMayors of Finistère Association Communes of Finistère {{Finistère-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Yvi
Saint-Yvi (; before September 2005: ''Saint-Yvy'', ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. INSEE Population Inhabitants of Saint-Yvi are called in French ''Saint-Yviens''. The population has been increasing quickly since the year .Geography Saint-Yvi is located east of . Historically, the town belongs to . The river Jet forms its northern border.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosporden
Rosporden (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.Commune de Rosporden (29241) INSEE Rosporden station has rail connections to Quimper, Lorient and Vannes. The small city specializes in the manufacture of "", a version of mead native to Brittany, and is known as the Capital of Chouchen. Population Inhabitants of Rosporden are called in French ''Rospordinois''. In 1974 Rosporden absorbed the former commune of Kernével. ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pont-Aven
Pont-Aven (, Breton: 'River Bridge') is a commune in the Finistère department in the Brittany region in Northwestern France. In 2019, it had a population of 2,821. Demographics Inhabitants of Pont-Aven are called ''Pontavenistes'' in French. Pont-Aven absorbed the former commune of Nizon in 1954, which had a population of 1,837 at the time. Map History Pont-Aven is mentioned among the towns which took part in the Breton anti-tax Rebellion of the Red Bonnets against Louis XIV of France in 1675. Arts Pont-Aven is mainly known because of the group of artists who flocked round Émile Bernard and Paul Gauguin, and who were joined in 1888 by Paul Sérusier. They were collectively known as "Pont-Aven School" (French: ''École de Pont-Aven'', Breton: ''Skol Pont-Aven''). Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art (PASCA) is an international fine arts program located in the historic artists' colony of Pont-Aven (Brittany, France). The student body is made up of third-year uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Névez
Névez (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. ''Nevez'' means "new" in Breton. The name is thought to have arisen when Trégunc was split in two, creating a new parish. Population Inhabitants of Névez are called in French ''Névéziens''. Map Notable people *Marie Pommepuy (b. 1978), illustrator and half of the joint pen name Kerascoët, grew up in Névez Gallery File:Chateau du Hénan.jpg, Hénan Castle File:Milin-vor Henan 2.JPG, Tide mill of Hénan File:Île de Raguénez.JPG, Raguénez island File:Chaumières de Kerascoët1.JPG, Thatched roof cottage in Kerascoët village File:343 Névez.jpg, Tourist office See also *Communes of the Finistère department The following is a list of the 277 communes of the Finistère department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2022): [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliant
Elliant (; br, Eliant) is a commune in the Finistère department and administrative region of Brittany in north-western France. It lies west of Quimper. Population In French the inhabitants of Elliant are known as ''Elliantais''. See also *Communes of the Finistère department The following is a list of the 277 communes of the Finistère department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2022):Mayors of Finistère Association Communes of Finistère {{Finistère-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communauté D'agglomération
An agglomeration community (french: communauté d'agglomération) is a government structure in France, created by the Chevènement Law of 1999. It is one of four forms of intercommunality, less integrated than a métropole or a communauté urbaine but more integrated than a communauté de communes. Agglomeration communities consist of a commune of at least 15,000 inhabitants (or a prefecture with less than 15,000 inhabitants) and its independent suburbs. As of March 2020, there are 222 agglomeration communities in France (207 in metropolitan France and 15 in the overseas departments).BANATIC France, Liste des groupements. Accessed 2020-03-19. The population (as of 2017) of the agglomeration communities ranges from 355,650 inhabitants ( [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institut National De La Statistique Et Des études économiques
The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (french: link=no, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques), abbreviated INSEE or Insee ( , ), is the national statistics bureau of France. It collects and publishes information about the French economy and people and carries out the periodic national census. Headquartered in Montrouge, a commune in the southern Parisian suburbs, it is the French branch of Eurostat. The INSEE was created in 1946 as a successor to the Vichy regime's National Statistics Service (SNS). It works in close cooperation with the Institut national d'études démographiques (INED). Purpose The INSEE is responsible for the production and analysis of official statistics in France. Its best known responsibilities include: * Organising and publishing the national census. * Producing various indices – which are widely recognised as being of excellent quality – including an inflation index used for determining the rates o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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