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Tips for Visitors
Tour length: 77 km (48 miles).
Stopping-off places: There are
good crêperies in Huelgoat and
Sizun. Gîtes and chambres d’hôte
(rooms in private houses) can be
rented in Botmeur, Bras parts,
Brennilis and Commana. In
St-Rivoal, visitors may sample
and purchase local delicacies.

5 Les Moulins de Kerhouat
This hamlet, with buildings dating from 1610, has been 6 Commana
converted into an open-air museum of the daily life and The parish church here contains
work of local millers. two painted wooden altarpieces,
one depicting St Anne and the
other, of 1682, Christ displaying
Landivisiau Morlaix his wounds.

Roc Trévézel
7 Brennilis
Barrage
du Drennec A village strongly associated
with legends, Brennilis is located
La Feuillée
near a strange peat bog – the
Botmeur Yeun Elez – which reputedly
Huelgoat
Yeun Elez marks the entrance to Hell.
The church has two
16th-century altars.
St-Michel
Reservoir
Carhaix-
Disused
J
Power Station Plouguer
St-
Rivoal
Huelgoat
Loqueffret
J Roc’h
Begheor
Brasparts
Châteauneuf-
du-Faou
0 kilometres 3
Pont-de-Buis
lès- Quimerch 0 miles 3
Pleyben
1 St-Herbot
The chapel, dedicated to St
Herbot, patron saint of livestock,
has a chancel and two stone
tables on which people placed
offerings when requesting his aid.
2 Montagne St-Michel
A stony track leads to the summit of
this bare mountain, 380 m (1,247 ft)
high, from which there is a
panoramic view of one of the
wildest areas of Brittany.

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