Curiosities of Roscoff ,part III !!!

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This one was going way north in my lovelyBretagne,always searching for new places in my magical world of France.Going over to our neighboring dept 29Finistéreis an usual habit by now, and this time got to the extreme north ; therefore, we haveRoscoff!  I found me again, older pictures in my cd rom vault that should be here, Therefore, let me tell you about curiosities of Roscoff ,part III !!! Hope you enjoy it as I.

The Church Notre Dame de Croas Batz (see post) construction was undertaken around 1520 on a dune, land taken from the sea, at the initiative of the shipowners of the city. The sacred perimeter contains the church, 2 ossuary chapels, (see below), as well as a funerary monument. The church is in flamboyant Gothic style. The Renaissance bell tower dates from 1575-1576, it is formed of bell towers chiseled in granite.

The ossuary of the parish enclosure of 1639 (see above). there are two ossuaries transformed into chapels, one from the 16C, the other built under Louis XIII. The one dating from the 17C once served as a school and, from 1910, as a catechism chapel. It is a rectangular monument, pierced on two sides by two floors of bays and it did not have any doors before being converted into a chapel.

The Rue Gambetta has the Chapelle Sainte-Anne,at no 33 ,today the tourist office, We have nice memories of stopping for some snacks/groceries at the La Tit’Epicerie, 9 Rue Gambetta, And see the picture of the house on no 31 rue Gambetta ;house built during the 2nd half of the 16C for a shipowner or merchant. Originally, direct access to the port of Roscoff. The pic taken from the Quai Charles de Gaulle.

The Maison Gaillard, there is a stone with the date 1598 actually comes from another older house in Roscoff. The house was built by the Gaillard family, a doctor from Paris, and Vickers, an ethnographer. Then the original house was rebuilt in neo-Gothic style to the extreme. On the facade, a sculpture represents a hunchbacked character, a peasant sailor, holding a braid in his hand. This sculpture is the very first representation of onion merchants in the Breton public space On this square now name Place Lacaze-Duthiers , zoologist, founder of the maritime zoological stations of Roscoff and Banyuls, He studied the anatomy of mollusks and published a natural history of coral (1863). He was received into the Academy of Sciences in 1871, and into that of Medicine in 1886.

The City of Roscoff on its heritage: https://www.roscoff.fr/-Tourisme-.html

The Roscoff tourist office on its heritage: https://www.roscoff-tourisme.com/en/discover/6-destinations/roscoff/

The Bretagne region tourist board on Roscoff: https://www.brittanytourism.com/destinations/the-10-destinations/pink-granite-coast-morlaix-bay/roscoff/

There you go folks, this is Roscoff ,w orth a detour and we will be back, eventually. Again, hope you enjoy this post on curiosities of Roscoff ,part III !!! as I  And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!

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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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