September, 8, 2005
QUIMPER
04:58 pm: Arrival in Quimper
Welcome by Corinne Le Du, from Quimper’s Tourism Office
Night at the Hôtel Mascotte **
6 rue Théodore Le Hars à Quimper
Tél :02 98 53 37 37
September, 9, 2005
QUIMPER
Free the morning
Suggestion: Walk to the covered market and possibility to visit the « Beaux Arts » Museum, exposition Jules Noel (paysagist painter -19th century)
« Beaux Arts Museum »
40 Place Saint-Corentin
12 :00 pm
Appointment at the Beaux Art’s museum with the tourist Office to have
lunch in a pancake shop (creperie)
2:00 pm
Meet Yolande (English Quimper’s guide) at the pancake shop, in order to visit Quimper,
Quimper: City of Art and History, bi-millennium city with Gallo-roman origins, episcopal and ducal city, Historical capital of Cornouaille.
Discovery of the historical city and the cathedral with Yolande.
Suggestion: Free visit of the Breton departmental museum
Free time in the city
Night at the Hôtel Mascotte **
September, 10, 2005
CONCARNEAU
Morning: free
2:00pm
Appointment at Concarneau’s Tourism Office with Mr Jean Marie Bechu (President of the Tourism Office) and with Mr Henry Depoid (President of the Fischerman’s Museum (“Musee de la peche”))
“Tourism Office of Concarneau”
Quai d’Aiguillon
Tél 02 98 97 01 44
September, 12, 2005
CONCARNEAU
11:00am
Meeting with the press organized at the “Museum de la peche (fishing museum)” at Concarneau in the “ville Close”, in presence of regional and local elected representatives, members of Brittany’s Regional Tourist Board (CRT).
September, 16, 2005
PONT AVEN
Visit of Pont Aven, city of painters
Suggestion: Free visit of the “Pont Aven Museum”
“Pont Aven Museum”
Place de l’Hotel de ville
Tel: 02 98 06 14 43
Contact: Conservative Mrs Puget
3:30pm
Appointment with Mrs Caroline Boyle Turner, the Director of Pont Aven Contemporary School of Art, to visit Gauguin’s room and workshops and to meet the working students
“Pont Aven Contemporary School of Art”
Pension Gloanec
5 Place Gauguin
Tél 02 98 09 10 45
Suggestions for the week: September 11-12 afternoon, September 13-14-15-17 morning
«Around Concarneau »
Visit of the « Pointe du Raz », Huge regional natural site, at the end of the Cape Sizun. Rocky peaks sinking in the Raz de Sein. Grandiose cliffs culminating in 72 m, sheltering colonies of marine birds. Trepasses Bay “Pointe de” Van- Saint-They Chapel in front of Sein Island “Ile de Sein”-
« Pont-Croix »
Small picturesque City alleyways laid with cobblestones edged with old houses- collegiate ND of Roscudon.
« La Baie d’Audierne »
Landscapes of marsh and dunes- wild unique natural scenery.
With one hundred species of birds which nest on a coastal of many kilometers, The “Baie d’Audierne is one of the most important ornithological sites of Brittany. Pointe de Torche, is a surfers’ paradise.
« Douarnenez »
A city of the three harbors. Harbor of Rosmeur which has inspired Renoir and Boudin, The Harbor Museum with is collection of old rigs and the yachts marina.
« Locronan »
Small City of Character, nestled against the side of the mountain, raise his houses of bluish granite at the foot of the square tower of its church in the stocky donjon.
Brittany’s famous tourist stopover, well known from the film-makers
« Presqu’Ile de Crozon »
Cape de la Chevre (goat Cape)- Hills od Dinan, Pen Hir and Pointe des Espagnols. Tas de pois (little islands).
« Menez Hom »
Summit of the Montagnes Noires (Black Mountains)- one of the highest Brittany’s heights (330m), at the entrance of Crozon peninsula.
At the Doors of Cornouaille
Besides Pont-Aven :
Le Pouldu
Possibility of visiting the Home of Marie Henry
“Home of Marie Henry”
10 rue des Grands Sables
Tél 02 98 39 98 51
Exhibition on « the Japonisme, Paul Gauguin and the House Marie Henry »
Suggestion go as you please on the path of the painters, many of them have stayed at pension of Marie Henry, exact reconstitution in the previous inn, when Paul Gauguin was painting in Pont-Aven
4 km circuit from the Home of Marie Henry with 12 milestones with painting reproduction, graphic, drafts
Harbours of Doëlan, Port Manec'h-Kerdruc and Brigneau
Nevez : villages of thatched cottages of Kerascoët and Kercanic
September, 16, 2005
PONT-L’ABBE
11:00am
Appointment with Mr Bernard Le Floch, Deputy Mayor of Pont-L’Abbe at the Town hall of Pont-L’Abbe (Hotel de Ville) at the museum Bigouden. Escort during the three days of the stay and introduce you to the picturesque sites of the bigouden country, painters’ inspiration famous area.
“Museum Bigouden”
tel 02 98 66 09 09
Visit of Pont-L’Abbe, of the Castle- Lucien Simon exhibition, and the church of the Carmes.
Visit of the Top of Penmarc' h-Phare d’Eckmuhl (lighthouse)
September, 18, 2005 PONT-L’ABBE
Suggestion: “Pardon” in the chapel Notre-Dame of Tronoën to St Jean de Trolimon
Harbours of the Pays Bigouden: Lesconil- Le Guilvinec
September, 19, 2005
PONT-L’ABBE
12:00pm
Meeting with typical Bigouden people traditionally dressed in the Museum Bigouden in a Breton inside there. Possible interview in Breton, English French
Tasting of Brittany’sn products
September, 20, 2005
PONT-L’ABBE
Departure to Paris by TGV
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