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Place de la Tour d'Auvergne

Place de la Tour d'Auvergne

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Place de la Tour d'Auvergne

Name: Place de la Tour d'Auvergne
Rating: 1.8

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Location: Carhaix-Plouguer, Châteaulin, Finistère, France

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1. From Carhaix to Gouarec — loop along the CANAL DE NANTES À BREST and the V6

80.8km

05:09

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480m

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2. Bernard Hinault statue – Carhaix-Plouguer loop from Plounévézel

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01:38

200m

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3. Carhaix-Plouguer – Place de la gare, Carhaix loop from Carhaix

39.5km

03:11

510m

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Matilde Maini

October 13, 2023

On this square in La Tour-d’Auvergne in Carhaix, the convent of the Hospitallers once stood. The Notre-Dame des Grâces chapel, located near the Post Office, is the last vestige. Victim in 1875 of a fire which almost destroyed it, the hospital was definitively abandoned in 1920 and its ruins were completely leveled. Probably used as a fairground since the Middle Ages, this ancient square adjoined the moat of the Carhaix castle. It was in 1841 that the bronze statue executed by the sculptor Charles Marochetti of Théophile Malo Corret de La-Tour-d'Auvergne was erected. This place was also called Martroy or Martret, a term which means market in old French. It therefore logically had to fulfill this function. Logical, given its location in the city.

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🕊️ 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒓

November 19, 2021

Historic ensemble centered on the old city chateau, next to the monastery of the hospitalière order

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Location: Carhaix-Plouguer, Châteaulin, Finistère, France

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Place de la Tour d'Auvergne

1. From Carhaix to Gouarec — loop along the CANAL DE NANTES À BREST and the V6

2. Bernard Hinault statue – Carhaix-Plouguer loop from Plounévézel

3. Carhaix-Plouguer – Place de la gare, Carhaix loop from Carhaix

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