Lake Guerlédan
Lake Guerlédan (; ) is an artificial lake in the centre of Brittany, France. It extends across the borders of the departments of Morbihan and Côtes-d'Armor, within the communes of Saint-Aignan, Morbihan and Mûr-de-Bretagne. At an elevation of 121 m, its surface area is 4 km2. Lake Guerlédan is the largest artificial lake in Brittany. This Lake was created to power the dam of Guerlédan. Construction took seven years from 1923 to 1930, and encountered many geological, technical and financial difficulties. The creation of the lake and especially that of the dam cut the through the Nantes-Brest canal which from this location, followed the course of the river Blavet The Blavet (; ) river flows from central Brittany and enters the Atlantic Ocean on the south coast near Lorient. It is long. The river is canalised for most of its length, forming one of the links in the Brittany canal system. It connects with t .... Seventeen of the old locks on the canal were submerged in t ...
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Saint-Aignan, Morbihan
Saint-Aignan (; ) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France. Inhabitants of Saint-Aignan are called in French ''Saintaignanais''. See also *Communes of the Morbihan department The following is a list of the 249 Communes of France, communes of the Morbihan Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2025):

Mûr-de-Bretagne
Mûr-de-Bretagne (, literally ''Mûr of Brittany''; ) is a town and former Communes of France, commune in the Côtes-d'Armor Departments of France, department, Brittany (administrative region), Brittany, northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, the former commune was merged into the new commune Guerlédan. Geography Mûr-de-Bretagne is a small town with shops, located east of the Lac de Guerlédan. Toponymy The old forms of the name are: ''Mur'' (1283), ''Mur'' (1368), ''Mur'' (1516), ''Mur'' (1536), ''Meur'' (1630). The name of the commune translated into Breton language, Breton is ''Mur''. History Transportation The town was previously served by a train station. The line on which it was on is now a cycleway Politics and administration Demographics In 2017, the municipality had 2,026 inhabitants.
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