Douarnenez: Best Things to Do
SIGHTSEEING
The sea and legend unite in Douarnenez: the city is said to have originated in the city of Ys, the domain of King Gradlon, whose dangerous daughter Dahut caused it to be swallowed up by the bay water. But it was also a very real commercial port, exporting fabrics produced in the region around the 16th century. Ancien abri du marin was inaugurated in 1903, built at the initiative of administrator André Potigny of maritime registration and financed thanks to donations from Mrs. Le Monnier (wealthy widow of a ship owner from Nantes) and for loans, without interest, provided by the local bourgeoisie.
Ancien abri du marin
DOWNTOWN
Douarnenez is found in Douarnenez Bay, in the Finistere department in northwest Quimper. This is an ordinary city with an active sardine and canning industry. Like many coastal cities in Brittany, tourism began to play a greater role in the city when the fishing industry declined, and not surprisingly, because this port city has a lot of praise, the port area is no exception and easy access to the coast. In the Cuves à garum (vestiges gallo-romains) site, history is a crowd at every step left by Gallo-Roman settlements and tanks that were healed by 19th century epic sardines. A heritage site to please visitors.
Cuves à garum (vestiges gallo-romains)
SHOPPING
If you're thinking to buy fishing equipment in Douarnenez, YS&O is the place. This shop allows you to pick the equipment for your fishing trip on the coast and also some interesting things available.
YS & O
FOOD & DRINK
If you're thinking of typical cuisines in Douarnenez, you must try this. True Belon oysters are produced in the area around the French Belon river, and some say that they are the rarest oysters in the world. They have a flavor reminiscent of salt water and a strong copper layer, and are full of umami. These oysters are flat and round, with corrugated green shells. However, in the 1950s, scientists brought these oysters to the United States, especially Maine, where they sold only 5,000 oysters per year.
CULTURE
The culture found in Douarnenez can be seen from its old buildings and ports. You can get around the city and visit the nearest museums as well. Douarnenez as well as other cities in France speak French.
BEST TIME TO VISIT
The best times to visit Douarnenez for ideal weather are May 21st to October 21st based on average temperature and humidity.
RESTAURANT
At the L'Effet Boeuf restaurant in Douarnenez, we let our meat rest on the carcass for 25 to 40 days in our cold room: it's cooked. Maturation is a decisive step to get quality meat. Just as you ripen cheese or age wine, beef takes time to get tender, tender meat. L'Esquisse is designed with a wise storefront is a soothing interior, the background for the creation of a chef who has a clear vision of good quality ingredients, full preparation of flavors and skills (to presentations on a plate), careful observation of the season, and with good creativity measured.
L'Effet Boeuf
L'Esquisse
HOTEL
LES RESIDENCES D'ARMOR is 1 minute walk from the sandy beach and 15 minutes walk from 1 of the 3 ports of Douarnenez. Thalassotherapy spa is 5 minutes walk. Bright rooms, some with sea views, feature simple furniture, free WiFi and satellite TV. Hôtel Du Port Rhu is a 2-minute walk from the pier in the port of Rhu, this simple hotel is also a 12-minute walk from the marine exhibit at Port-musée de Douarnenez. Featuring unpretentious décor with bright accents, these simple rooms provide free Wi-Fi and flat-screen TVs.
LES RESIDENCES D'ARMOR
Hôtel Du Port Rhu
CAFE
Café Mercure Bar Brasserie offers an eclectic selection of traditional Thai & International dishes. With alfresco choices or indoors dining, MCafe has the flexibility to suit your actual needs. The restaurant is open only for bookings or private events. Café de la Pointe offers family recipes and traditional specialties prepared by chefs reinvented two to three times per week with ups and downs and the season is offered to include "Menu du Jour." Focusing mainly on local fisheries (daily fish, shellfish and seafood in the region) and regional products without fail to find dishes that are boiled on Friday and Saturday nights.
Café Mercure Bar Brasserie
Café de la Pointe
BAR AND NIGHTLIFE
LE POURQUOI PAS is a cafe and bar since 1987 you can taste pancakes, ice cream every afternoon. A dozen beers on tap including the famous God of Peace. Establishments are made as if on a ship, all in wood with extraordinary sea architecture. If you want to find a fun place or have fun, you can go to V and B Douarnenez. The waiter will welcome you and advise you to choose more than 1000 beers, wines, whiskeys or alcoholic drinks in Douarnenez. Take the basement side or taste, the bar side!
LE POURQUOI PAS
V and B Douarnenez
INTERESTING PLACE
Located in the Pouldavid district, the Chapelle Saint Vendal is built on a rectangular plan. In the chapel enclosure, we can note the presence of Calvary which was built by the workshop of the sculptor Roland Doré and a fountain whose water is said to be magical in rheumatic healing. The Chapelle Sainte Hélène, listed in the Supplementary Inventory of Historic Monuments in 2012, is located in the maritime quarter of Rosmeur in Douarnenez. Built ex-nihilo from 1480, in several stages, depending on the offerings and fishing yields, this former parish church was then altered in the 17th and 18th centuries. The bell tower would have been inaugurated in 1642.
Chapelle Saint Vendal
Chapelle Sainte Hélène
INSTAGRAMMABLE SPOT
Port-museum (Port-musée) is a museum with a difference, a boat and human museum, from Brittany and far. The museum's national reference collection takes visitors on a journey through maritime culture throughout the world. Plage des sables blancs or Sables Blancs beach is a beautiful family beach, with fine sand. A nautical spot offers nautical activities. Facilities for people with reduced mobility available from the lifeguards.
Port-musée
Plage des sables blancs
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