Our Blog - Bretagne Trip - Summer 2021 - Plomelin, France

We went over to the town of Plomelin to check it out, since I had seen a gîte that might be interesting for next year. The center of town is really quite tiny for a town of over 4,000 people, and we didn't really see that much commerce there. It seems like it has become somewhat of a commuter town to Quimper, which is only 6 miles away. The area has bee inhabited since neolithic times (there are menhirs there that we walked by) and the remains of a Gallo-Roman villa was descovered in 1834 nearby.

We first started with a nice walk that took us by the Park ar Menhir, or Park of the Menhirs. There are several large standing stones (menhirs) in a lovely little park, with a stream running through it. I have Tom and Lucy in front of one of them to show how large these are.

This is the Saint-Philibert chapel, dedicated to Saint Philibert. It is in the shape of a Latin cross, and was built between 1621 and 1684. Only the outside (sorry) as it is no longer open to the public.

The Saint-Mellon church is dedicated to Saint Mellon, who was the first bishop of Rouen. It was finished in 1893 in a neo-Romanesque style in the form of a Latin basilica. The spire was not completed until 1896. On one side of it is this standing stone/dolmen formation. It also wasn't opened when we were there.