Pontaniou
District of Brest
in Finistère of Brittany Region, France
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Brest Bretagne Airport (5 mi) - Quimper-Cornouaille Airport (32 mi)
- Morlaix-Ploujean Airport (34 mi)
- Lannion-Côte de Granit Airport (53 mi)
- Lorient South Brittany (Bretagne Sud) Airport (65 mi)
- Saint-Brieuc-Armor Airport (75 mi)
- Vannes-Meucon Airport (94 mi)
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Plymouth City Airport (141 mi) - Exeter International Airport (169 mi)
- Piscine Tréziroise (amusement park, (10 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 48.390 and -4.486 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 48° 23' 25" and W -4° 29' 10"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Euro - EUR
- Spoken languages:
- French, Breton, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Occitan
- Local electricity:
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- Local Time: 11:48 PM (Sunday)
- Timezone: Europe/Paris
- UTC/GMT offset: 1 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 8:29 am and 5:36 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- -44.091 and 171.686 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Longbeach - References
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Safety Score: 3,0 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning we advice caution when travelling to France.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning France. Last Update: 2024-08-13 08:21:03
Discover Pontaniou
The district Pontaniou of Brest in Finistère (Brittany Region) is a district in France about 314 mi west of Paris, the country's capital city.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 12°C / 54 °F
| Morning Temperature | 12°C / 53 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 10°C / 50 °F |
| Night Temperature | 11°C / 51 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 0% |
| Air Humidity | 73% |
| Air Pressure | 1022 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 9 km/h (6 mph) from South |
| Cloud Conditions | Broken clouds, covering 75% of sky |
| General Conditions | Light rain |
Monday, 18th of November 2024
13°C (56 °F)
13°C (55 °F)
Light rain, fresh breeze, overcast clouds.
Tuesday, 19th of November 2024
12°C (53 °F)
8°C (46 °F)
Moderate rain, strong breeze, overcast clouds.
Wednesday, 20th of November 2024
8°C (47 °F)
8°C (46 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Qualys-Hotel La Paix Hôtel Contemporain
Best Western Europe
Oceania Brest Centre
Le Continental Oceania Hotels
L'Amirauté Brest Oceania Hotels
ibis Brest Kergaradec Aéroport
De la Corniche Logis
Appart City Brest Place de Strasbourg Résidence Hôtelière
Vauban
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Videos from this area
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Le projet de téléphérique de Brest
Avril 2015.
Le projet de Téléphérique de Brest
Le téléphérique ici présenté en images de synthèse desservira le plateau des capucins dès 2015.
Brest, Brittany - France 4K Travel Channel
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West Courtage - Courtier à Brest
Présentation de l'agence de courtier en credit immobilier et en gestion de patrimoine à Brest et sur tout le Finistère http://www.courtier-brest.fr.
Brest - Balade dans le nouveau tramway
Petite promenade dans le nouveau tramway de Brest le lundi 16/04/2012.
CITY KAY, Progressive Reggaë African postman au P'tites Lessives 2014
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Portes ouvertes 2013
Les 15 et 16 Mars 2013, Sainte-Anne ouvrait ses portes, voici une vidéo diaporama de cet événement.
Mr Cuillandre2014 et les animaux
Opération au pied du mur ** Mr Cuillandre n'a toujours pas répondu malgré une certaine fierté affichée... Quand l'auto-congratulation ne parvient pas à faire oublier certaines images.
Jeanne se ballade en jeep
Après le bac S
Ce diaporama présente les diverses formations proposées après le Bac S.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Gare de Brest
Gare de Brest is the railway station serving Brest, France. It is the western terminus of the Paris–Brest railway. The new station, built above the town's harbour in 1932 on the site of its 1865 predecessor, includes a tall clock tower and a semi circle passenger hall. The current building of 1932, by the CF de l'Etat, replaces the older building built in 1865 by the CF de l'Ouest. The station saw the arrival of the TGV Atlantique in 1990 but saw little changes to its structure.
Stade Francis-Le Blé
Stade Francis-Le Blé is a multi-use stadium in Brest, France. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Stade Brestois 29. The stadium is able to hold 15,097 spectators. The stadium is named for Francis Le Blé, former mayor of Brest who died in 1982.
Salle Marcel Cerdan
Salle Marcel Cerdan is an indoor sporting arena located in Brest, France. The capacity of the arena is 2,000 people. It is currently home to the Étendard de Brest basketball team.
University of Western Brittany
The University of Western Brittany (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, UBO) is a French university, in the Academy of Rennes.
Rue de Siam
The rue de Siam (or Siam Street) is the main arterial street of Brest. Its name comes from the arrival of three ambassadors led by Kosa Pan, sent by the King of Siam on the 29 June 1686 to meet Louis XIV in Versailles. They went with six mandarins, three translators, two secretaries and a retinue of servants, loaded with presents. They traveled on the boats l'Oiseau and La Maligne. They crossed Saint-Pierre Street to go to the hostel of the same name.
École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées Bretagne
The École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées de Bretagne (English: National Institute of Advanced Technologies of Brittany) often referred as ENSTA Bretagne formerly ENSIETA is a French grande école of engineering. The ENSTA Bretagne is a higher education establishment and a research centre run under the supervision of the French ministry of defence.
Roadstead of Brest
The roadstead of Brest (rade de Brest) is a roadstead or bay located in the Finistère department in Brittany in northwestern France. The surface area is about 180 km² (70 sq mi). The port of Brest is located on its northern edge and one of the two French naval bases. It is linked to the Atlantic Ocean (called the Iroise Sea at this point) by the Goulet de Brest, a strait about 1.8 km wide.
École de maistrance
The École de maistrance is the training school for future non-commissioned officers in the French Navy. It was set up in 1988, it is now part of the Brest Naval Training Centre and within the remit of the Direction du personnel militaire de la marine (DPPM). It is currently headed by capitaine de frégate Gabriel Steffe.
Phare du Portzic
The phare du Portzic is situated on the north-eastern extremity of the Goulet de Brest and is the nearest lighthouse to the town of Brest. It was inscribed as a monument historique before 1987. On the seaward side of the bottleneck entrance to the goulet, the lighthouse faces the Pointe des Espagnols. It was built on military land in 1848, at the same time as the phare du Petit Minou (started slightly earlier to the north of the Goulet. It was electrified in 1953 and automated in 1984 .
Fort de Portzic
The Fort de Portzic was built near the town of Brest by Vauban between 1693 and 1699 as part of the defences of the goulet de Brest. It faces the pointe des Espagnols and was improved and enlarged over time (including the Phare du Portzic in 1848 and a semaphore station in 1987), since it formed the town's last and innermost defence. The buildings on the site remain in military use. Nearby is the lighthouse Phare du Portzic.
Pointe des Espagnols
The Pointe des Espagnols is the north-east extremity of the Roscanvel peninsula, an outgrowth of the Crozon peninsula closing off the roadstead of Brest. It also marks the south-east limit of the goulet de Brest. Formed by a cliff that is more than 60m high, at whose summit and base are the remains of fortifications and barracks, the point reaches towards the north-east via the rocher de la Cormorandière, marked by a pole.
Penfeld
The Penfeld, Penfell in Breton, is a 16 km long French coastal river. On its left (east) bank has grown up the town of Brest in Finistère.
Pont de l'Harteloire
The Pont de l’Harteloire is a bridge in Brest, France. Upstream of the Pont de Recouvrance, it connects the two banks of the river Penfeld and overlooks the arsenal de Brest. It is on the site the naval transporter bridge destroyed during the Second World War.
Pont de Recouvrance
The Pont de Recouvrance is a vertical-lift bridge in Brest, France, across the river Penfeld. Opened on 17 July 1954, it was the largest vertical-lift bridge in Europe until the opening of the Pont Gustave-Flaubert in 2008. It links the bottom of the rue de Siam to the quartier de Recouvrance, replacing a swing bridge destroyed by Allied bombardment in 1944. Each pylon is 70m high, and the 525-tonne lift span is 88m long.
Recouvrance, Brest
Recouvrance is the section of the city of Brest, France which lies on the right bank of the river Penfeld. It is a popularly and historically Breton quarter, in contrast to the largely Francophone quarter of Brest-même or Brest-proper on the left bank. The lift bridge over the Penfeld was named after this neighbourhood, as was a schooner built in 1992 in the city.
Pont National (Brest)
For the bridge of this name in Paris, see Pont National. The Pont National was a swing bridge across the river Penfeld in Brest, France. It opened in 1861, linking rue de Siam to Recouvrance, near the Tour Tanguy. It was destroyed by Allied bombardment in 1944 and replaced by the Pont de Recouvrance in the 1950s.
Tour Tanguy
The Tour Tanguy, Bastille de Quilbignon or Tour de la Motte Tanguy is a medieval tower on a rocky motte beside the Penfeld river in Brest, France. Probably built during the Breton War of Succession, it faces the château de Brest and is now accessed by a road off the square Pierre Péron, at one end of the pont de Recouvrance. It now houses the Museum of Old Brest, a museum with a collection of dioramas that depict the city of Brest on the eve of World War II.
Château de Brest
The Château de Brest is a castle in Brest, Finistère, France. The oldest monument in the town, it is located at the mouth of the river Penfeld at the heart of the roadstead of Brest, one of the largest roadsteads in the world. From the Roman castellum to Vauban's citadel, the site has over 1700 years of history, holding right up to the present day its original role as a military fortress and a strategic location of the highest importance.
Brest Arsenal
The Brest Arsenal (French - arsenal de Brest) is a collection of naval and military buildings located on the banks of the river Penfeld, in Brest, France. It is located at {{#invoke:Coordinates|coord}}{{#coordinates:48|23|12|N|4|29|48|W|region:FR_type:landmark_scale:20000 |primary |name= }}.
Brest Prison
The Brest Prison (French - bagne de Brest) was a 254m long prison in Brest, France. It was built between 1749 and 1751 by Antoine Choquet de Lindu, dominating the military port it was built to serve. It could house 300 prisoners (sometimes as much as 10% of the town's population), children as young as 11 as well as older people. It was demolished in the late 1940s.
Rue Saint-Malo
Rue Saint-Malo is a paved street in Brest, France. It is located in the Carpon valley, against the plateau des Capucins in the Recouvrance quarter. Only its lower half survives, as the oldest street in the city. It runs along the wall of the terrain de la Madeleine, where once stood the convent which took in 'sinful women' and Huguenots. It is lined with 17th and 18th century houses and overlooked by terraced gardens.
ESC Bretagne Brest
École Supérieure de Commerce Bretagne Brest (ESC Bretagne Brest), also called The Graduate school of Management of Brittany, France, is a French business School in the city of Brest in northwestern France. Founded in 1962, ESC Bretagne Brest provides business and management courses to 900 students. Currently, the school offers 7 different programmes both in French and in English The school is supported by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Brest.
Conservatoire botanique national de Brest
The Conservatoire botanique national de Brest (32 hectares) is a notable botanical garden located at 52 Allée du Bot, Brest, Finistère, in the region of Brittany, France. It is open daily without charge. The conservatory site was formerly a quarry and rubbish dump, purchased in 1971 by the municipality to create open space.
Île Ronde, Brest
The Île Ronde (literally Round Island) is a French islet 400m to the south west of Pointe de l’Armorique, in the roadstead of Brest, within the territory of the commune of Plougastel-Daoulas. Its highest point is 24m. Facing Île Ronde, on the pointe de l’Armorique, is the fort de la pointe de l’Armorique. In the sea, 600m to the east of Île Ronde, are two dolphins, concrete cubes built by the German occupiers during the Second World War at a place where the water is 16m deep.
École nationale d'ingénieurs de Brest
The École nationale d'ingénieurs de Brest (ENIB) is a French grande école leading to the French “Diplôme d’Ingénieur” under the authority of the French Ministry of Education and Research.
These districts also belong to Brest.
- Forestou
- Forestou
- Grand Kerinou
- Guernevez
- Kerfautras
- Kergrach
- Kerhuel
- Keroriou
- Kervallon
- L'Arriere-Garde
- L'Harteloire
- La Montagne
- Le Bouguen
- Le Carpon
- Le Chateau
- Le Douric
- Le Guelmeur
- Le Merle Blanc
- Le Ruisan
- Le Salou
- Mestriden
- Petit Kerinou
- Plateau de Queliverzan
- Poul ar Bachet
- Prat Ledan
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