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Douarnenez, the town with three harbours, is the ideal
holiday location: with its invigorating ocean climate and
numerous activities on offer (including boat trips and hikes)
you can combine all the benefits of seawater therapy with
the pleasures of exploring a town brimming with character.
Sufficient quantities of tuna, sardines and assorted
crustaceans are still landed at the
port of Douarnenez, in the superbly
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sheltered bay,
south of the Crozon peninsula, to keep the largest
fish canneries in Europe busy. However, the catch
has been declining ever since 1923, when eight
hundred fishing boats brought in 100 million
sardines during the six-month season.
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Over the last twenty years, Douarnenez has set
out to redefine itself as a “living museum of all
matters maritime”. Since 1993, Port-Rhû, on the west
side of town, has been designated as the Port-Musée,
with its entire waterfront taken up with fishing and
other vessels gathered from throughout northern
Europe.
Its centrepiece, the Musée du Bateau doubles as a
working boatyard, where visitors can watch or join
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construction of seagoing vessels, using techniques from all
over the world and from all different periods.
Three harbours
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Of the
three separate harbour areas in Douarnenez, the most
appealing is the rough-and-ready port de Rosmeur,
which is nominally the fishing port used by the
smaller local craft. Its quayside – far from totally
commercialized, but holding a number of cafés and
restaurants – curves between a
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left, which continue around the north of
the headland.
The various beaches around town are amazingly
pretty, but sometimes dangerous for swimming.
Seawater therapy
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The birth place of
thalassotherapy, Brittany has an invigorating marine
climate with bracing sea air, excellent for
restoring fitness. The
Douarnenez thalassotherapy
centre at Treboul, acknowledged for the quality of
its facilities, offers all advanced treatment
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