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Penn-ar-Bed (company)
Penn-ar-Bed is a French shipping company providing a ferry service between Finistère and the islands of Ushant, Molène and Île de Sein, Sein every day of the year, under a public service contract to the Conseil général du Finistère. It is named after Penn-ar-Bed, the Breton language, Breton name for Finistère. Its livery is blue and white. Routes The company operates the following routes: * Brest, France, Brest - Le Conquet - Molène - Ushant * Audierne - Ile de Sein * Brest, France, Brest - Camaret-sur-Mer - Molène - Ushant (Seasonal) * Brest, France, Brest - Camaret-sur-Mer - Ile de Sein (Seasonal) Fleet Pen-ar-Bed operate a fleet of seven vessels. References {{commonscat, Penn-ar-Bed (compagnie) Ferry companies of France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Penn may refer to: Places England * Penn, Buckinghamshire * Penn, West Midlands United States * Penn, North Dakota * Penn, Oregon * Pennsylvania ** Penn, Pennsylvania * Penn Lake Park, Pennsylvania * Penn Township (other), several municipalities Australia * Penn, South Australia was the name for the town now known as Oodla Wirra before 1940 Education * University of Pennsylvania, U.S., known as "Penn" or "UPenn" **Penn Quakers the athletic teams of the university * Penn High School, Indiana, U.S. People Surname * Abram Penn (1743–1801), noted landowner and Revolutionary War officer from Virginia * Alexander Penn Wooldridge (1847–1930), American mayor of Austin, Texas from 1909 to 1919 * Alexander Penn (1906–1972), Israeli poet * Arthur Penn, American film director and producer * Arthur Horace Penn (1886–1960), member of the British Royal Household * Audrey Penn, American children's author * B.J. Penn (born 1978), American mixed martial arts fighter * Claire Pen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audierne
Audierne (; br, Gwaien) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016 the former commune of Esquibien merged into Audierne. 16 October 2015 The town lies on a at the mouth of the Goyen river and for centuries was a fishing village, with a wide sandy beach. Visitors can take a boat from Audierne's port of Esquibien to the . The harbour, formerly important to the local fishing industry, is now essentially a |
Enez Eussa III 2010-05-08 Ouessant PM (2)
Enez is a town and a district of Edirne Province, in Thrace, Turkey. The ancient name of the town was Ainos ( el, Αίνος), Latinised as Aenus. The mayor is Özkan Günenç ( CHP). The population is 10,886 as of 2018. Enez consists of an old town centre, backing on to the Meriç/Evros river forming the border with neighbouring Greece; the harbour and Pırlanta Beach, 3 km southwest across the lagoon; and Altınkum Sahili (Golden Sands Beach), another 2 km south, which has been developed as a resort strip mainly catering for domestic tourists. Despite Enez's proximity to the Greek border there is no crossing point by land here. To cross the border into Greece it is necessary to travel north to İpsala. Location The town is located on the left (eastern) bank of the river Meriç ( Greek: Evros, historically the Hebrus) where its estuary broadens to flow into the Gulf of Saros (the ancient Melas Gulf) and so into the Aegean Sea. Enez occupies a ridge of rock surrounded by bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Colin 2009-08-05 Le Conquet PM
André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew, and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries. It is a variation of the Greek name ''Andreas'', a short form of any of various compound names derived from ''andr-'' 'man, warrior'. The name is popular in Norway and Sweden. Cognate names Cognate names are: * : Andrei,[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camaret-sur-Mer
Camaret-sur-Mer (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department in northwestern France, located at the end of Crozon peninsula. Sights Camaret-sur-Mer is home to the ''Tour Vauban'' or ''Tour dorée'' (lit. "Golden Tower"), a historic fortification guarding the harbor and built in 1669–94. In 2008, the ''Tour dorée'' was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as part of the "Fortifications of Vauban" group. Camaret also is home to a marina and some beaches. Population Inhabitants of Camaret-sur-Mer are called ''Camarétois''. Map Twinning Camaret-sur-Mer is twinned with St Ives, Cornwall, UK. See also *Communes of the Finistère department *Saint-Pol-Roux *Parc naturel régional d'Armorique The Parc naturel régional d'Armorique ( br, Park an Arvorig), or Armorica Regional Natural Park, is a rural protected area located in Brittany. The park land reaches from the Atlantic Ocean to hilly inland countryside. There are sandy beaches, sw ... *" List of the works of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ile De Sein
Ile may refer to: * iLe, a Puerto Rican singer * Ile District (other), multiple places * Ilé-Ifẹ̀, an ancient Yoruba city in south-western Nigeria * Interlingue (ISO 639:ile), a planned language * Isoleucine, an amino acid * Another name for Ilargi Ilargi, Ile or Ilazki is the name of the Moon in Basque language. In Basque mythology, she is the daughter of Mother Earth Mother Earth may refer to: *The Earth goddess in any of the world's mythologies *Mother goddess * Mother Nature, a commo ..., the moon in Basque mythology * Historical spelling of Islay, Scottish island and girls' name * Another name for the Ili River in eastern Kazakhstan * ''Ile'', a gender-neutral pronoun in Portuguese See also * ILE (other) * * {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Conquet
Le Conquet (; br, Konk-Leon) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. This is the westernmost town of mainland France. Only three insular towns—Ouessant, Île-Molène and Ile de Sein—are further west The town is mentioned in the Asterix series books, Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter and Asterix and the Banquet as Gesocribatum. Geography Le Conquet is a fishing port in the northwest of Brittany and it is located north of the Pointe Saint-Mathieu (commune de Plougonvelin). Maritime transport The port of Le Conquet is served by the company ''Penn-ar-Bed'' providing links with Ouessant and the archipelago of Molène throughout the year. During April to September, the company ''Finist'mer'' also provides fast links between the port of Le Conquet and Lanildut, and the archipelago of Molene and Ouessant . History As he fled from Wales in exile, Henry Tudor landed in Le Conquet rather than France due to a storm that blew his ship off cours ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brest, France
Brest (; ) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of the peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon. The city is located on the western edge of continental France. With 142,722 inhabitants in a 2007 census, Brest forms Western Brittany's largest metropolitan area (with a population of 300,300 in total), ranking third behind only Nantes and Rennes in the whole of historic Brittany, and the 19th most populous city in France; moreover, Brest provides services to the one million inhabitants of Western Brittany. Although Brest is by far the largest city in Finistère, the ''préfecture'' (regional capital) of the department is the much smaller Quimper. During the Middle Ages, the history of Brest was the history of its castle. Then Richelieu made it a military harbour in 1631. Brest grew around its arsenal unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
