Binic

Binic ( Binig into Breton) is a common French, located in the department of the Coast-with Armor and the area Brittany.

Its inhabitants is called the Binicais and the Binicaises .

Geography

Binic is located in the western part of bay of Saint-Brieuc: the Coast of Goëlo (which goes from the Sillon of Talbert to the handle of Yffiniac). Its Marina, accessible only to high tide, proposes 500 places with flot.
According to the census of 1999, it counts 3110 inhabitants. Its population is about multiplied by three the été.
Binic is divided into several districts:

the Fountains-Gicquel
the City-Biard
the City-Even
the City-Garnier
the City-Gilbert
City-Jacob

History

Binic draws its name from the prefix PEN (which means chief) and from Ic which is the name of the close river which is thrown in the sea. Binic is thus the mouth of the Ic. It is called Cité of the Spray or the Beauty spot of the Coasts of Armor .
The history of Binic goes up with the Neolithic (between 3500 and 1800 before J.C.). Indeed, one found monuments there megalithic the such Dolmen the Table of Margot (destroyed in 1816 during work of the port).
With the the Middle Ages, Binic (then called Benic ) was a small village of with more the one score of houses. But it was however a great place of fairs and markets where the inhabitants came from the villages alentours.
In 1821, thanks to François Saulnier de Saint-Jouan, a ship-owner binicais and in support of the Duchesse of Angouleme, girl of Louis XVI, Binic becomes a commune with whole share while being detached from the parish of Cattle shed-on-Sea. It counts 1611 inhabitants then. should be awaited 1840 so that the limits between Binic and the communes of Cattle shed-on-Sea and Pordic are definitively arrêtées.
At the 19th century, Binic knew its apogee while becoming, in 1845, the first French port for Great Fishing. The port received 150 to 160 ships annually and the activity was divided between fishing with Newfoundland and the coastal traffic (importation of salt, wine, wood of North, flours and vegetables). Binic was then the first fishing port to the Morue.
More recently fishing developed with the Scallop, speciality of the Baie of Saint-Brieuc. Since 1992, the trawlers binicais unload their fishing with the new port of Saint-Quay-Portrieux, city close to 6 kilometers.

Heraldic

Of azure with two money fish swimming one on the other (superimposed in fasce), with the chief of hermine

Administration

Demography

Economy

Binic comprises a artisanal Zone where are in particular located the companies Binic Gastronomie and the Minoterie Hinault.

Tourist monuments and places

Binic, from its history is rich in tourist monuments and places. To recall its history, the Musée of the popular traditions abounds in objects of the past, given by institutions or private individuals, and introduced within their framework of origin. They are as well objects of the daily life, as of the instruments of fishing or traditional clothing.

Religious buildings

the church of Binic is called Notre-Dame de Bon Voyage . Its construction was decided in the place of old the Chapelle Saint-Julien after the introduction of Binic like commune independent of Cattle shed-on-Sea in 1821.
Binic also counts the Chapelle Saint-Gilles in the district of city-Jacob, where takes place a procession each first Sunday of September.

Beaches

There exists in Binic three Plage S giving on the Manche.

the outer harbor is a framed stone beach: rocks at each end and the dam overhanging it. To the top of the beach, the coastguard path offers a splendid point of view on the sea.
the Form is the greatest beach of Binic. One finds there a swimming pool, a basin of sea water and a club of beach to animate the days of young people.
the beach of the body of guard is it located in a more wild decoration and is definitely attended than the two preceding ones.

The Port

That which saw leaving so much sailors to broad of Newfoundland accommodates today more than 600 units on pontoon and damping in the basin and the outer harbor. Girdled by 1300 m of quays, it consists of an outer harbor, 4 hectares, and a wet dock, 3,35 hectares.

The market

Since the 16th century, the privileged geographical location of the market and its maritime vocation registered Binic in the history of the Fairs and Marchés. At the time, one found any kind of products there: products of the sea, the ground, the trade and the armament of ships. Several fairs were held on date fixes each année.
Since the French revolution, this market with place each Thursday morning. Today, in season, nearly 200 tradesmen settle there, offering products regional, fresh produce and various other products…

Festivities

In April: Binic reveals
In May: The Cod Celebrates
In May of it: Festival of Puppets
In July - August: ANIMAKIDS
In July: Goëlobeach volleyball
In July: Sandball Turn
In August: Festival Around the Blues
In August: Colors of Brittany
In August: To run in Binic
In September: Large Triathlon

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