Pont-Aven
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| Commune of Pont-Aven | |
| Location | |
| Longitude | -3.75° |
| Latitude | 47.85° |
| Administration | |
|---|---|
| Country | France |
| Region | Bretagne |
| Department | Finistère |
| Arrondissement | Quimper |
| Canton | Canton of Pont-Aven (chef-lieu) |
| Intercommunality | |
| Mayor | Isabelle Biseau (2001-2008) |
| Statistics | |
| Altitude | m–m (avg. m) |
| Land area¹ | 28.63 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
2,960 |
| - Density (1999) | 103/km² |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 29217/ 29930 |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
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Pont-Aven is a commune of the Finistère département, in Brittany, France. Population (1999): 2,960.
Pont-Aven is known because of the group of artists who flocked round Émile Bernard and Paul Gauguin, and who were joined in 1888 by Paul Sérusier.
Pont-Aven is home to the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art.
The Aven River runs through Pont-Aven and was the site of L'Aven Project by artist John K Melvin. This month-long art installationwas on view to the public from July 29 to September 4, 2006. Conferences and a catalog accompanied the installation.
Before Pont Aven attracted Gauguin and other artists it was a centre for milling with the river Aven being divided above the town to provide a mill race which powers a series of water mills. Whilst several of these retain their wheels only the last, the Moulin Poulguin is still capable of operating. The mill is now a restaurant and you can see the machinery inside.
Just outside the town is the beech woods of the Bois d'Amour.
The Brittany Ferries flagship is also named after the town.
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