The names of streets and squares of the Lower Town of Quimperlé
Stroll through the streets and squares of the Lower Town, the oldest part of Quimperlé
Starting from a recent book on the history of names, we will see that alongside names that date back to the Middle Ages and provide information about this period, other more recent names show that the road has not remained beside political stakes. The visit will also recall missing names.
About the venue
The abbey Benedictine of Sainte-Croix, based(established) in 1029, was in Middle Ages one of the richest in Brittany. It is the only church in Brittany to have a circular plan (Sainte-Croix clings to a clover(club) with a central rotunda). She(It) keeps(preserves) an important furniture: entombment of the beginning of the 15th century, retable of the 16th century, treasure of silver of the 16th in the 19th centuries, Christ dressed in the XVIIth century...