Plusquellec: Chapels, Bocage and Kerthomas
Accommodation in Plusquellec
The Notre-Dame-des-Grâces church was fully listed as a historic monument by decree of 19 September 2018. Its main construction phases are attributed to the 16th and 18th centuries. The church complex in Plusquellec comprises an enclosed area, an ossuary and a calvary. When exploring the site, you can first consider the chronology of the complex and then its individual components.
Culture and History
The Chapelle Saint Fiacre is located in Saint-Fiacre in Plusquellec and is considered an isolated building there. During its reconstruction, structural elements from the 14th and 16th centuries were reused, including the west door, the western gable, the south door and the pillars of the crossing. The Chapelle Saint Fiacre was rebuilt around 1933. On closer inspection, you can identify the aforementioned structural elements individually.
The Chapelle Saint Mélar is located in Locmenal in Plusquellec and is a building dating from before 1693. You can consider the two locations separately when planning cultural highlights.
Other places: Plounévez-Quintin, Saint-Fiacre, Merdrignac, Pont-Melvez, Plerin, Treffrin, Lohuec and Plouër-Sur-Rance.
Nature and Trails
The Circuit de Kerthomas starts in front of the church in Plusquellec. It passes through the bocage landscapes typical of Brittany, along sunken lanes lined with yew trees, and past traces of 18th- and 19th-century mining, heathland and marshes. For planning purposes, you can weigh the landscape, mining history and nature observation separately.
The Kerthomas pond and stream are considered a habitat for otters; their presence is regarded there as a sign of good water quality. When observing nature, you can consider this connection with the waterways separately from the sunken lanes, heathland and marshes.
The information gives rise to different scales for planning the day: the Circuit de Kerthomas brings together landscape features, waterways and mining traces within a local setting, while Ar Wenodenn, at 139 kilometres, offers a significantly broader perspective in terms of distance. Cultural interests remain separately anchored in the churches and chapels named above.
When comparing a holiday apartment in Plusquellec, first check the travel dates, room category and cancellation conditions on the booking pages. You can also note whether you would prefer to focus your trip on buildings, landscape trails, nature observation or cycling distances. This information will help you organise the time-related and contractual conditions clearly. When categorising your travel plans, the previously mentioned focuses can remain separate from one another: historic complexes, the Circuit de Kerthomas with its bocage and marshes, the Kerthomas waterways or the planned cycling route. This makes it easy to distinguish cultural, landscape-related, nature-related and cycling-tourism interests from one another.
Cycling
The Ar Wenodenn cycle route project envisages a 139-kilometre connection between Ploubazlanec and Carhaix. For your own planning, you can treat the stated distance as a separate criterion alongside the cultural and landscape highlights. The route passes through Plusquellec.
For the broader travel overview: Côtes-d'Armor.
