The departure of boats is always laced with nostalgia but when it consists of nearly 2,000 craft, each with their own maritime heritage, culture and tradition, amidst an atmosphere resounding with sirens and horns in thanks to the whole of Brest for its warm welcome, the emotion as they cast off for new horizons is tangible....
There is today around the Lighthouses an interest ever contradicted: one period seems to be closed with their automation and the disappearance of the lighthouses keepers.
The Mount consecrated in 708 was one of the first place of cult for the Archangel Michel (World Heritage list of the Unesco). You are invited to a visit of exceptional and mostly secrets places such the abbey and the cloister and their medieval architecture from the XI to the XVI th century concluded by an opened wide panaroma on the bay.
This D-carte is a spiritual walk as much as a tourist tour.
