Pont-Aven,
cité des peintres
Pont-Aven, cité des peintres
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A place to look
Pont-Aven is a place to look, where village charm is inviting, where windows and galleries are reminders, where Gauguin's memory won't let us forget.
  • Old Houses
  • Beautiful granite facades from the 17th and 18th centuries can be seen from the rue des Meunières to the Place Royal. The facades boast fronton windows and monumental chimneys rise overhead. These wer...
  • The Bridge
  • This little granite bridge is the town's central element. It symbolizes the junction between land and sea, the notion of an intersection that made Pont-Aven this place of trade. The city did not g...
  • The Port
  • This port fills up at high tide. In the 18th century it was a source of wealth for the land, but today it is reserved for pleasure boats. Once it was the center of a trade oriented town, where a war...

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