Quimper Audio Guided Walking Tour 1h and 23 audio reviews

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ime, when the Roaring Twenties and the Belle Époque were in full swing.

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k of the city: the famous Cathedral of Saint-Corentin.

The Steïr, the Odet and the Frout are the three waterways without which the prefecture of Finistère would not be the same. A geographical plan, certainly, but also an identity plan. And yes, Quimper, from Breton kemper, means “confluence”.

If he called himself “born for Brittany”, Quimper is truly the city where his existence began. Who are we talking about?

In the Belle Époque, the river was even the preserve of aristocratic families who set up their manor houses and other castles on its banks.

A huge wooded wall, parallel to the Odet, Mont Frugy is inseparable from the landscape of Quimper. The inhabitants know him so well by heart that they don’t really pay attention to him anymore.

With them, the premises are formal, it is all the friendliness and quality of the products of the city, and its surroundings, that come together.

Breton, warm, ancestral and authentic, Quimper is not the kind of city to give itself air. It’s even the opposite!

What today is a rather trivial action, was much less so centuries ago.

Brief, but distinctive, the sound you just listened to tells you that here is one of the most photogenic places in the city.

In fact, that’s almost what friends are. Rediscovered by chance just 46 years ago, Treuz Street is now one of the tourist “musts” of the old town centre of Quimper.

While the city centre and quiet are generally not a good combination, in Quimper, the Retreat Garden does not hold back from proving the contrary. And by name alone, he's already doing it.

an opening to the ocean, a gastronomy of crazy iodine, sweet, or generously buttered, Brittany makes us travel.

In the centre is Her Majesty the Cathedral.

Adjoining the town hall of Quimper, the Musée des Beaux-Arts occupies this classical palace, since 1872, designed by the same architect as that of the spires of Saint-Corentin Cathedral.

front of this statue, and then what more... For the sake of all the premises, it is essential that you get to know the figure shown here.

be inattention not to notice this emblematic facade of Quimper.

Whether one goes to the cathedral, or comes out, to miss stopping here would be a big mistake.

Here and there, Quimper goes to great lengths to preserve the precious testimonies of its evolution over the centuries.