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Cap Fréhel Legendary site, bird sanctuary, overlooking a blue sea tinged with emerald, the Cap Fréhel offers a show that you never get tired of. The Cap Fréhel, wonder of nature, is one of the most impressive sites of Brittany with cliffs overlooking the sea at 70 meters high. Walking around the cape is magnificent, among heaths and gorses. It spreads from the Pointe du Grouin in the east to the island of Bréhat in the west. When the weather is nice, the Anglo-Normand islands can sometimes be seen. On the right side of the cape stands the famous outline of the Fort la Latte. The old lighthouse, also called Vauban Tower, was built in granite under Louis XIV, according to the drawings of Simon Garangeau. At the beginning, coal was used in the lighthouse, and was then replaced by fish oil lamps. The current lighthouse, whose light goes as far as 110 km and overlooks the sea at 103 meters high, was built in 1950. From the top of the 145 steps, one overlooks the Pointe de Paîmpol (on the west) up to the Pointe du Groin (in the east). At night, one can even see the glow of the lighthouse of la Corbière, in the southwest end of Jersey, 50 km in the offing. Fort la Latte Built in the 14th century by Goyon-Matignon, this castle was reshaped in the 17th century and restored at the beginning of the 20th century. It has preserved its feudal aspect and stands on a spectacular site. Overlooking the sea at more than 60 meters high, the Fort is separated from the continent by two precipices which can be crossed on drawbridges. From the covered way, one discovers an amazing panorama on all the Emerald coast: the Anse des Sévignés, the Cap Fréhel, the bay of la Frênaye, the Pointe de St-Cast, the Ebihens, St-Briac and St-Lunaire islands, the Pointe du Décollé, St-Malo, Paramé and Rothéneuf, the Cézembre island and the Pointe du Meinga. Cap Fréhel, a bird sanctuary The Cap Fréhel and its small islands spread on 6 km of steep shore occupied by seven to eight hundred couples of nesting birds. Two islands on east side of the cape shelter a colony of guillemots and penguins, oyster magpies, crested cormorants, tridactyl gulls, marine seagulls and brown seagulls. In summertime, some couples of “fous de Bassan” can also be admired. The Pointe du Jas, on the west side of the cape, is inhabited by a colony of “pétrels fulmars”... Moor on the Cap Fréhel South and southeast of the cape are more than 400 ha of moors (one of the largest area in Western Europe), where, depending on exposure, heaths, wild thyme, marine carnation, hyacinths, and all sorts of mosses and lichens grow. From spring to autumn, a symphony of colors is scattered on the ground: the purple color of heaths and callunes blends with the gold of gorses in blossom. |
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