Paimpol

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

Its inhabitants is called Paimpolais (be).

Geography

Geology

The area of Paimpol shows that the Brittany was formerly a ground of Volcan S. With the point of Guilben of the dark rocks advance in the sea. In fact here Pillow washed S (lava in cushions) testify to a volcanicity very old submarine (640 million years). Spilites which constitute the mass of the pillows contain blocks of red Cornaline. A little in North, the hillock of Kerroc' H offers a unspoilable view on bay. The tower which surmounts it was built partly in purplished red Rhyolite: a Lava recovered a little low on the shore. Below the tower, indeed, one finds the traces of another volcanicity paimpolais (from 550 to 530 million years that one). Here the rock contains fiammes formed following a volcanic Cloud. Other side of Paimpol, in the south, worms Holy-Bores are the volcanites Plouézec (approximately 470 million years).

History

  • In 1202 the count Alain de Goëlo founds the Abbaye of Beauport

  • Nom of Paimpol into Breton: according to Herve Abalain (2000) “ Penpol in 1184, Penpul in 1198; Paimpol is the francized form of PEN poull : the end of stretch of water”. But Pempoull was however retained. The history of Paimpol is however quite related to a pond, whose Paimpol was one of the two ends, on the side of Kérity, the other being located at Plounez.
  • 1790: Paimpol and Plounez set up in communes
  • 1824: the commune of Lanvignec is attached to Paimpol
  • November 26th, 1960: the communes of Plounez and Kérity are attached to Paimpol
  • Paimpol is famous to have been at the beginning of the 20th century one of the ports of the great fishing , with broad of the Iceland. Pierre Loti will make a novel in of it 1868, Pêcheur of Iceland .

Demography

Administration


Paimpol is a maritime Quartier (initial: PL ).

Economy

  • Agriculture in full fields and Greenhouse S (mainly with Tomato S).
  • Ostreiculture: hollow oysters and punts.
  • Construction and naval repair (small units and pleasure).
  • Fishing: the ports of Loguivy-of-the-Sea (shouted) and of Pors-Even are on the commune of Ploubazlanec.
  • Marina.
  • First dry port of Brittany

  • Tourism, hotel trade, restoration, lodgings.

  • Trades of art (painting, sculpture).
  • Schools of veil, of which a base of the Glénans.
  • traditional Trade, three large surfaces, an artisanal zone.
  • Service with the people.
  • Hospital, old people's home.
  • Colleges, colleges (including one maritime College).

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

  • Marcel Cachin, born in Paimpol in 1869
  • Pierre Parcelled out, of which the famous novel Pêcheurs of Iceland is held in Paimpol and the surroundings
  • Etienne Didot, born in Paimpol in 1983, player of Football and captain of the Stade of Rennes
  • François Chappé (1947-2007), Historien, author of a thesis on Paimpol " The Icelandic epopee, 1880-1914, Paimpol, the Republic and Mer".

Culture

Music

  • Paimpol was sung by Theodore Botrel, in the song Paimpolaise . The type-setter celebrates there, for the rhyme, a cliff. He then acknowledged to have put the feet at Paimpol only a few years after the song, and discovered the cliffs of Plouha, a score of kilometers in the south. A coffee of the port names “the Cliff”.
  • Paimpolaise , file Karaoké, Paimpolaise.mid (with the format .kar, words and music).
  • Festival of the Song of sailors, every two years since 1989, (see the following chapter).
  • Groups of song of sailors of the canton of Paimpol: Hundred Z' Escales, Forecastles, the Soiled basic ones of Hold .
  • Groups of songs of Breton tradition (for Fest-noz): Teuz
  • Music school, Patrick Lever (directing)

Festival of the song of sailor

Every two years, a festival with in August place on the port of Paimpol which is enclosed for this occasion. Named Festival of the song of sailor to the edition of 2005, it is now called Festival of the song of sailor because of his increasing importance (the three last editions gathered more: 100000 people).

During this festival which lasts three days (of the Friday to Sunday), the port is interdict with all the vehicles and it is held there spectacles various and varied around a musical animation mainly directed towards the songs of sailors, but also the musics of the world, with heads of famous posters: Idir in 2003, Denez Prigent and Carlos Núñez in 2005, daN Ar Braz, Rokia Traoré and Johnny Clegg in 2007…

Of old man gréements of various nationalities are moored in the port especially for this period and all the boats present in the basins are pavoisés.

The official site: The festival of the song of sailor 2007

Cinema

  • Delphine Deloget, director documentary
  • Sylvain Bouttet, realizer
  • Room of cinema of art and test

Painting, sculpture, craft industry of art

Many artists exert and expose their talents to Paimpol.

Written press

See also: Press of Armor

See too

Related article

  • Common of Coast-in Armor

Notes, sources and references

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