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Les Guilvinistes
June 11, 2019
Cycling
In the area of the dunes, as here in Penmarc'h, trough-shaped, stone-lined depressions, so-called "fours à goémon", are found in many places. In earlier times, kelp was collected and dried to "pains de soude". Due to the sodium and iodine compounds in the dried seaweed, the "pains de soude" were raw materials for industry and agriculture.
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Matilde Maini
October 10, 2023
Cycling
There are still five seaweed ovens left in Penmarc’h, one of them is on the coast of Saint-Guénolé. Seaweed ovens are trenches dug in the ground which were used to …
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