Saint-Jacut-les-Pins (; ) is a

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in the

Morbihan Morbihan ( , ; br, Mor-Bihan ) is a department in the administrative region of Brittany, situated in the northwest of France. It is named after the Morbihan (''small sea'' in Breton), the enclosed sea that is the principal feature of the coastli ...

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in north-western

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Geography

The river Arz forms all of the commune's northern boundary.

History

The Celtic Veneti, and then the

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occupied the area in Classical times. In the

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, Britons founded several villages, Bodnaga, Brehadou Guidemais, Bina, Redillac, Brandicoet, and Calleon to name just a few of their towns in the area. The name Saint-Jacut-les-Pins comes from a 6th-century

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Jacut Jacut was a 5th-century Cornish Saint who worked in Brittany. He is commemorated liturgically on 6 February. His father was Fragan, a prince of Dumnonia, and his mother Gwen Teirbron. The young family had fled to Brittany to avoid the plague rag ...

, who arrived with the British emigrants as a boy and established a

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nearby. The parish suffered heavily in the

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Facilities

The municipality has a medical home, Doctors, a pharmacy and a retirement home which provides a course of activities health for seniors.

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ally, the commune has a nursery and

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(École Saint-Joseph), a medical Institute and a technology high school (ISSAT). In sporting terms, the municipality has a Sports Hall, and the dynamism of its numerous sports associations (cycling, hiking, running foot, basketball, football, tennis, motorcycling, water gymnastics, hunting and fishing). Finally, on the cultural level, the

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has a media library (Médiathèque Saint-Jacut-les-Pins) and many associations (theatre, choral, foyer des jeunes).

Transport

The commune is located 10 minutes by car from

Redon station Redon is a railway station serving the town of Redon, Ille-et-Vilaine department, western France. The station is situated on the Rennes–Redon railway and the Savenay–Landerneau railway. Services The station is served by high speed trains to ...

Nantes Atlantique Airport Nantes Atlantique Airport (french: Aéroport Nantes Atlantique, formerly known as ''Aéroport Château Bougon'') is an international airport serving Nantes, France. It is located southwest of the city, in Bouguenais. The airport is operated b ...

and

Rennes–Saint-Jacques Airport Rennes–Saint-Jacques Airport or ''Aéroport de Rennes–Saint-Jacques'' is a minor international airport about southwest of Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, in the region of Brittany, France. History Before the construction of this airport, Rennes ...

are respectively at 1 h 15 min and 1 h by car. St-Jacut-entrée-pont-ferrov

The municipality is crossed from East to West by the main rail axis of the southern Brittany. This line Savenay - Landerneau opened up to

Lorient Lorient (; ) is a town (''Communes of France, commune'') and Port, seaport in the Morbihan Departments of France, department of Brittany (administrative region), Brittany in western France. History Prehistory and classical antiquity Beginn ...

in 1862, it allows by Redon relations between the stations of the Brittany cities of the South and Paris by Rennes. The municipality has long disposed of a station and then a train stop, currently these two stations are closed and abandoned.Jean-Pierre Nennig, « 519+943 - Gare de Saint-Jacut », ''Le Chemin de fer de Bretagne Sud'', 2008, p. 87. The railway history of the commune will may be rebound with freight activity.

Demographics

Inhabitants of Saint-Jacut-les-Pins are called in

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''Jacutais''. In 2017, the town had 1,733 inhabitants.

Geography

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Facilities

Transport

Demographics

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