Cadouarn: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

The Île de Boëde can be reached on foot from Cadouarn on the Langle peninsula. However, access is difficult and requires good knowledge of the route.

Nature and Paths

South of Cadouarn, the Gué du Gornevez begins and leads towards the eastern side of the Île de Boëde. It follows a winding path, no more than one metre wide, for 442 metres through areas of soft mud.

According to the conditions described in 1905, the Gué du Gornevez could only be crossed between low tide and half tide, or between half tide and low tide. The coastal and country paths in Séné enable walkers, hikers and mountain bikers to discover, among other things, the fishing village of Cadouarn with its typical fishermen’s houses.

History

At the end of the 19th century, Le Ranquin was incorporated into Cadouarn. The Manoir le Ranquin is one of the oldest buildings on the Séné peninsula; its stair tower bears the date 1613.

In Cadouarn and Le Ranquin, 28 recorded houses bear the dates 1873, 1893 or 1908. A 19th-century cross stands in Cadouarn on the site of a windmill that was marked on the 19th-century cadastral map.

Architectural Heritage

Cadouarn consists mainly of rendered fishermen’s houses, which are often built directly against one another and generally have no upper floor. Ty Mad at 32 rue de Cadouarn is a characteristic fishermen’s house with two openings on the ground floor and a hanging dormer window.

The house at 39 rue du Moulin formerly served partly as a café and was a place for social interaction in the fishing village of Cadouarn. The house at 2 rue des Algues illustrates Cadouarn’s historical transformation from an agricultural settlement into a maritime village in the 19th century.

From the second half of the 19th century until 1919, Jean Martin’s shipyard in Cadouarn built seven to eight Sinagots each year. Rue de Cadouarn leads down to a former beach cove that was once used as a harbour for beaching boats, and is lined on both sides by regular rows of houses for fishermen’s families.

More local pages: Plaudren, Ploeren, Mauron, Auray, Grand-Champ, Saint-Servant, Le Moustoir, Pont-Scorff

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