Le Cloître-Saint-Thégonnec: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

An unusual attraction in Le Cloître-Saint-Thégonnec is the Musée du Loup: opened in 1991, it is currently the only active museum in France dedicated exclusively to the wolf. It explores the history of the wolf in the Monts d’Arrée and is based on the collections and archives of naturalist Édouard Lebeurier. Exhibits include stuffed wolves and a reconstruction of a wolf den. Interactive stations include, among other things, an activity in which visitors protect sheep from the wolf, as well as other wolf-related digital experiences.

Nature

The Réserve naturelle régionale des landes du Cragou et du Vergam covers 343 hectares of heathland and moorland and is classified as “Espaces remarquables de Bretagne”.

The 1.2-kilometre interpretive circular trail “Petit tour du Cragou” passes through the Landes du Cragou. The “Chevreuils de Kermorgant” circular trail is 8 kilometres long, can be walked on foot and is described as easy; it passes through a hilly, rural landscape.

The former “Le Cloître-Lannéanou” railway station, also known as Kermeur station, is located on the Greenway from Morlaix to Carhaix.

Culture

The lavoir on rue du Roudour is a rectangular washhouse made of slate slabs. Vertically arranged slabs form the basin, while horizontal slabs form the washing stones; several old grave slabs were reused. The lavoir was built at the end of the 19th or beginning of the 20th century, possibly on the site of an older devotional spring.

The parish church of Notre-Dame had been a place of worship dependent on the Cistercian monastery of Relecq since at least 1462; extensive alterations were carried out in 1710. The church and the lavoir are part of the registered, intermunicipal protected area Site des Monts d’Arrée; it was registered by the decree of 10 January 1966.

The Chapelle Saint-Barnabé fell into disrepair in 1969, before the chapel and its surroundings were restored in the early 1990s. According to local tradition, the farmers of Le Cloître-Saint-Thégonnec inserted a coin into a fissure in the Menhirs de Kermorgant to promote the fertility of their soils.

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