Country France Department Finistère Canton Landerneau Local time Sunday 9:25 AM | Region Brittany Arrondissement Brest Area 13.19 km² | |
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Intercommunality Pays de Landerneau-Daoulas Weather 11°C, Wind NW at 6 km/h, 96% Humidity | ||
Landerneau (Landerne in Breton) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.
Contents
- Map of 29800 Landerneau France
- International relations
- Music festival
- Population
- Breton language
- Schools
- Transport
- References
Map of 29800 Landerneau, France
It lies at the mouth of the Elorn River which divides the Breton provinces of Cornouaille and Léon, 20 km (12 mi) east of Brest. The name means "(religious) enclosure of St Ténénan (Welsh: Tyrnog)": allegedly a Welshman who also had llans in the Vale of Clwyd in North Wales and in Somerset, and who moved to Brittany in the 7th century. It was an important centre of the flax and linen industries in the 16th and 17th centuries. Today it is the main agricultural market in northwest Brittany.
A picturesque feature of the town centre is the sixteenth-century house-lined bridge (the Pont de Rohan) across the Elorn.
International relations
Landerneau is twinned with the towns of Caernarfon in Gwynedd in Wales and Hünfeld in Germany.
Music festival
Every year in August, a music festival called "Fête du bruit dans Landerneau" occurs in Landerneau. "Fête du bruit dans Landerneau" literally means "Noise (or Sound) fete in Landerneau" but when written "Faites du bruit dans Landerneau", it also means "Make some noise (or sound) in Landerneau" as it is a play on words based on the double meaning of the homophones "Fête" and "Faites".
Population
Inhabitants of Landerneau are called in French Landernéens. At the census of 1999, the town had a population of about 20, 000.
Breton language
Landerneau has many bilingual signs (French and Breton), and is the first town where the indications in the local station were made bilingual, as a result of the Ya d'ar brezhoneg charter of the Ofis ar Brezhoneg.
The municipality launched a linguistic plan through Ya d'ar brezhoneg on December 12, 2004. In 2008, 12.46% of primary-school children attended bilingual schools.
Schools
There is a Diwan preschool and primary school in the town.