Trégastel

Trégastel Tregastell
Commune
Trégastel beach
Coat of arms
Location of Trégastel
(2020–2026)		Xavier Martin[1]
Area 1	7.00 km2 (2.70 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	2,541
• Density	360/km2 (940/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	22353 /22730
Elevation	0–71 m (0–233 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Trégastel (French pronunciation: [tʁeɡastɛl]; Breton: Tregastell) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of the region of Brittany in northwestern France.

Trégastel is situated between Perros-Guirec and Pleumeur-Bodou. Lannion is 10 kilometres away.

Population

Inhabitants of Trégastel are called trégastellois in French.

Breton language

The municipality launched a linguistic plan through Ya d'ar brezhoneg in February 2008.

In 2008, 16.5% of primary school children attended bilingual schools.^[5]

International relations

Twin towns – sister cities

Trégastel is twinned with:

Religious monuments

• St Laurent Church in the bourg
• Ste Anne des rochers chapel
• St Golgon chapel

The Costaérès castle

In 1892, Bruno Abakanowicz bought a small island called Costaérès in Trégastel, where by 1896 he had erected a neo-Gothic manor.

Marine aquarium of Trégastel

Since 1967, Trégastel has been home to a marine aquarium, built within a large, naturally occurring, outcrop of pink granite rocks.

Gallery

• 
  La palette du peintre
  (The painter's palette)
• 
  Le dé (The dice) and
  Les tortues (The turtles)
• 
  Le tas de crêpes
  (The pile of crêpes)
• 
  Le Roi Gradlon
  (Gradlon King)
• 
  24h de la voile regatta
• 
  The tide mill on Ploumanac'h Road
• 
  Ste-Anne-des-Rochers chapel
• 
  December 2010
• 
  Natural granite ball (2–3 ft in diameter) close to Renote Island

See also

• Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department
• Jentilez

References

External links

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