The tour des Anglais in Pénerf of Damgan !!!

Posted in Bretagne, France

This is a dandy nice coastal town and wonderful beaches in my beautiful Morbihan. I came up with new pictures from my cd rom vaults that should be in my blog for you and me, This is  lovely Damgan!  And one that is not to be missed is the Pénerf peninsula, Therefore, let me tell you on the tour des Anglais in Pénerf of Damgan !!! Hope you enjoy it as I.

At Pointe du Lenn , facing the ocean, stands the Tour des Anglais. At 15 meters, it has been welcoming boats at the entrance to the Pénerf river and has been doing so for some 5 centuries. It is also the only fire tower, ancestor of the lighthouse, preserved on the Atlantic coast! The tower was both a watchtower and a beacon: it signaled the entrance to the Pénerf River and made it possible to watch for the arrival of enemy privateers: ships from Jersey island, Spain and England. Its current name only appears after 1902; before that, it was called the Tour Blanche or White Tower and then theTour de Pénerf or Pénerf Tower. It is a structure probably built at the beginning of the 16C, in any case attested in 1692. Both a fire tower and a watchtower, it was part of a military complex until the beginning of the 19C. It is probably the oldest existing fire tower in its original architecture on the French Atlantic coast. It is a cylindrical tower 15 meters high on a truncated base approximately 8.20 meters in diameter at the base and 1.70 meters high, a truncated cone base 3.80 meters high and a three-level upper part 9.20 meters high. The one-meter-thick walls with a one-meter-high parapet supported by granite corbels rests on console machicolations. The tower, located about a hundred meters from the shore, is one of the rare vestiges of coastal defense in the region. The town of Damgan owns it.

Following along the littoral on the D140 you bypass the plage du Bil and the plage du Govet beaches and continue with the rue du Treutan you reach the secluded plage du Pénerf and a great view of the Tour des Anglais.

The city of Damgan on its heritage: https://www.damgan.fr/decouvrir-damgan/histoire-patrimoine.html?start=4

The Damgan-La Roche Bernard tourist office on the Tour des Anglais:  https://www.damgan-larochebernard-tourisme.com/lieux-incontournables/damgan-station-balneaire/tour-des-anglais-a-damgan-osez-le-detour/

There you go folks another dandy by the coast in my beautiful Morbihan, tops really you should take a look. And the beaches are awesome ! And this is the Pénerf peninsula of Damgan !!!  Again, hope you enjoy the post on the tour des Anglais in Pénerf of Damgan !!! as I.

And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!

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Published by pedmar10

I am a lover of travels to Europe , Americas , Africa and Asia as well ,who like to share my experiences of the last 53 years with the world, visiting so far 81 countries; living in 6, working in 5, and Citizen of 4, speaking fluently 4 languages. I can deal with sports especially football/soccer and love music, arts, wine collector/drinker, and go out to restaurants, and just visit the world. My background comes all the way from Candelaria and Pajara in Tenerife, Spain where my grandparents came from ;not knowing each other then, to Punta Brava, west of Havana, Cuba. There , my parents born in Cuba met and later on I was born there too. 100% guanche (annexed Tenerife to Spain on April 10 ,1496). I left Cuba as many have to Madrid, Spain where I lived for 4 years. Then, move to Perth Amboy ,New Jersey USA (living there 13 yrs) ; where I completed high school, became a US Citizen, learned to drive a car, and learned English. Afterward, went to the university in Florida, ERAU, and upon graduation decided to moved there to Ormond by the Sea, near Daytona Beach, finally moving North Miami, then Hialeah, then another moved to Silver Lakes division in Miramar, Broward county, Florida; in Florida I lived a total of 18 years. Finally , moved to France in 2003 ,Versailles call me for its royalty, and working in Paris was great. It was time to seek frontiers again and moved to Brech near Auray, Morbihan in Brittany , and later move to not too far Pluvigner. Total so far in France has been 20 years, and counting. Moving average a home every 5.5 years hopefully this will be my last. Cheers All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of the copyright holder, me. No part of this work may be modified, without the written permission of the holder, me.No part of this work may be exposed to public view in any form or by any means, without identifying the holder as the author, and with the before mentioned permission.

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