Haut Pen-ar-Forest
District of Pen-ar-Forest
in Finistère of Brittany Region, France
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Brest Bretagne Airport (3 mi) - Morlaix-Ploujean Airport (26 mi)
- Quimper-Cornouaille Airport (35 mi)
- Lannion-Côte de Granit Airport (45 mi)
- Lorient South Brittany (Bretagne Sud) Airport (64 mi)
- Saint-Brieuc-Armor Airport (69 mi)
- Vannes-Meucon Airport (91 mi)
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Plymouth City Airport (136 mi) - Exeter International Airport (163 mi)
- Bournemouth Airport (196 mi)
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape (Unesco heritage, 116 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 48.461 and -4.353 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 48° 27' 39" and W -4° 21' 11"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Euro - EUR
- Spoken languages:
- French, Breton, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Occitan
- Local electricity:
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- Local Time: 12:59 AM (Sunday)
- Timezone: Europe/Paris
- UTC/GMT offset: 1 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 8:39 am and 5:28 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- -44.217 and 171.383 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Clandeboye - References
- This place on Geonames.org
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
Explore Haut Pen-ar-Forest
The district Haut Pen-ar-Forest of Pen-ar-Forest in Finistère (Brittany Region) is located in France about 307 mi west of Paris, the country's capital.
If you need a place to sleep, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Depending on your travel schedule, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Brest, Chateaulin, Quimper, Morlaix and Lannion. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 15°C / 58 °F
| Morning Temperature | 11°C / 52 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 15°C / 59 °F |
| Night Temperature | 15°C / 59 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 3% |
| Air Humidity | 94% |
| Air Pressure | 1003 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Strong breeze with 22 km/h (14 mph) from North-East |
| Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
| General Conditions | Light rain |
Sunday, 24th of November 2024
16°C (62 °F)
10°C (51 °F)
Moderate rain, high wind, near gale, overcast clouds.
Monday, 25th of November 2024
11°C (53 °F)
9°C (49 °F)
Light rain, fresh breeze, scattered clouds.
Tuesday, 26th of November 2024
13°C (55 °F)
12°C (54 °F)
Light rain, fresh breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Brit Hotel Brest Le Relecq-Kerhuon
Videos from this area
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kayak slalom à landerneau
Le club de kayak de Plouhinec cap-sizun au championnat du finistère de slalom à Landerneau.
Circuit de Saint-Herbot à Saint-Thonan, le 2 juin 2013
Course cycliste pour 3ème catégorie. Classement : 1 Périou Tony VS Plabennec en 2h20'25" 2 Menthéour Paul-Mickaël Team Armorique à 46" 3 Roué Michel Team Armorique à 1'55" 4 Guillerm...
autocross Le Drennec 2009 finale 1700cm3
Finale 1700cm3 tres beau duel des deux premiers http://sylvainlandi.skyrock.com/
Prelavage VTT le drennec
voici la station de prélavage de la rando VTT organisée à Le Drennec ;)
Autocross Le DRENNEC 2009 La Finale 2L
La finale 2L vue du haut du circuit http://sylvainlandi.skyrock.com/
Jo-Pic a vu changer le monde....
Voilà ce que l'on croise dans nos campagnes... ces gens là sont en voie d'extinction et nous allons le payer cher un jour... T'as raison JO !
Neige sur le Finistère 09-01-10.avi
Il neige sur le Finistère.
Autocross PLOUDANIEL oct 2009 finale 2L
Finale 2L Championnat du Finistere http://sylvainlandi.skyrock.com/
autocross PLOUDANIEL oct 2009 Finale 1700cm3
Dernière finale 1700cm3 Challenge Départemental du Finistere http://sylvainlandi.skyrock.com/
easyJet A319 engine start-up from the cabin
A319 easyJet seat 12A Takeoff from Brest.
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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.
Plougastel Bridge
The Plougastel Bridge, or Albert-Louppe Bridge, is a bridge over the Elorn River near Brest, France, connecting Plougastel-Daoulas and Le Relecq-Kerhuon. Construction on the Plougastel Bridge started in 1926 and was completed on 9 October 1930. Part of it was destroyed by the German army in 1944, and shortly after was closed for repair. It was reopened after the widening and construction five years later.
Aulne
The Aulne is a 140 km long river of Brittany in north-western France, flowing down the hills and emptying into the roadstead of Brest, one of the many fjord-like bays just south of Brest. The river is part of the Canal de Nantes à Brest, the navigation canal that once connected the city of Nantes on the Loire River with the port town of Brest on the Atlantic coast.
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.
Brest Bretagne Airport
Brest Bretagne Airport (French: Aéroport de Brest Bretagne), formerly known as Brest Guipavas Airport, is an airport serving the French city of Brest. It is located in the commune of Guipavas and 10.2km (6.4 miles) northeast of Brest, within the département of Finistère. Though the main operator is Air France (and subsidiaries Brit Air and Regional), serving for the most part Paris and Lyon, other scheduled services are offered elsewhere in France and to the UK.
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.
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.
Élorn
The Élorn (in Breton - Elorn, without the accent) is a 56 km long river in Brittany, France. Its source is in the monts d'Arrée, 1.5km NNE of Le Tuchenn Kador, and it then runs through several small towns such as Sizun and Landivisiau before flowing out into the roadstead of Brest. This river is the birhplace of the legendary Dragon of the Élorn. The maritime part of the river stops at Landerneau, where the pont de Rohan blocks seaborne ships from sailing any further upstream.
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.
Manoir de Mézarnou
The Manoir de Mézarnou is a fortified 16th century manor-house located in the Finistère département of Brittany in northwestern France. It is located in the small rural town of Plounéventer, near Landivisiau. It was erected by Yves de Parcevaux, who reorganized the domaine between 1571 and 1591.
Gare de Landerneau
Gare de Landerneau is a railway station serving the town Landerneau, Finistère department, western France. It is situated on the Paris–Brest railway and the branch to Quimper.
Pont de l'Iroise
The Pont de l'Iroise is a cable-stayed bridge in Finistère, Brittany, France, which spans the Élorn river where it enters the roadstead of Brest. It carries route nationale 165, the road between Brest and Quimper, and connects Le Relecq-Kerhuon to the north with Plougastel-Daoulas to the south. The bridge is named after the Iroise Sea, into which the roadstead of Brest opens.
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