Île-de-Bréhat

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Coordinates: 48°50′49″N 2°59′55″W / 48.84694, -2.99861

Commune of Île-de-Bréhat
Enez-Vriad
Port-Clos landing stage at low tide
Location
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Coordinates 48°50′49″N 2°59′55″W / 48.84694, -2.99861
Administration
Country France
Region Bretagne
Department Côtes-d'Armor
Arrondissement Saint-Brieuc
Canton Paimpol
Intercommunality none as of 2008
Mayor Yvon Colin
(2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation 0 m–34 m
Land area¹ 3.09 km²
Population²
(1999)		 421
 - Density 136/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 22016/ 22870
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.
France

Île-de-Bréhat (Breton: Enez Vriad) is an island located near Paimpol, a mile off the northern coast of Bretagne. Administratively, it forms a commune of the Côtes-d'Armor département in France.

Bréhat is actually an archipelago composed of two main islands, separated only at high tide, and many smaller ones. It is famous for its pink granite rocks, very mild micro-climate and Mediterranean vegetation, due to the warm Gulf Stream coming from across the Atlantic.

Many day-trippers come to Brehat every day by the ferry service (les Vedettes de Bréhat) and visit the main tourist attractions, the Paon & Rosedo lighthouses, the St-Michel chapel, the Guerzido beach, the Birlot water-mill and the Verrerie of Bréhat.

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[edit] Demographics

Inhabitants of Île-de-Bréhat are called Bréhatins.

As of the census of 1999, the village has a population of 421.

[edit] Attractions

  • Rosedo Lighthouse
  • Chapelle Saint Michel
  • Paon Lighthouse
  • Chapelle Keranroux
  • Verrerie of Brehat

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Paon Lighthouse

Chapelle St Michel

Chapelle Keranoux
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