Channel France logo

 

 

For Mobile Home or Camping Breaks

contact

  I. Travel

 01534 631390

your Channel Islands French Connection

Find out more....

www.indtravel.co.uk

Logo

 

 

LES PIERRES SONNANTES

at Notre Dame de Guildo, Cote d'Armor, Brittany

 

 

 

 Places to Stay in Brittany  Places to Eat in Brittany |  Places to Visit in Brittany | Things to Do in Brittany | Events Calendar Brittany Market Days  | Brittany Gardens  | Breton Legends  | Boat Trips Brittany | Sports and Leisure Activities |  Breton Recipes | Carte des Vins  River Rance | Brittany Beaches | Holiday Activities for Children in Brittany| Brittany Town of the Month

The Pont Rene PlevenLeaving Notre Dame Guildo and just after crossing the Rene Pleven Bridge which spans the River Arguenon - look out for the turning on the left that takes you down to the slip and the left bank of the Arguenon.  The bridge has historically proved of great benefit to the area and replaces an older wooden version.  Crossing the river by foot was dangerous as the tides moved up so quickly - as in the Channel Islands there is a huge rise and fall.  Also the sandbanks moved with the currents and crossing on foot or even horseback was not without peril.

Art Gallery Notre Dame de GuildoYou will arrive at a delightful group of old granite houses which line the slip and little hill coming down to the sea.  Opposite the slip and across the River Arguenon estuary is the Chateau du Guildo

Les Pierres Sonnantes du Petit Bois are huge stones made from Amphibole and if you throw an amphibole pebble at them they make a silvery singing sound.  Amphibole is a bisilicate of calcium and magnesium and one of the hardest rocks on earth.  Like a diamond, it can scratch glass. 

According to legend the stones were vomited up by the Giant Gargantua when he was walking through the area having eaten them in error.

To find the stones involves walking a short way along the beach and there are white painted arrows which point the way to the stones.

One of the attractions is a traditional Breton house which is covered with wisteria and beautiful.  It is used as an art gallery with different displays on view.  Apart from the art visiting the house is fascinating as some of the furnishings and decor and traditional Breton.

Chateau du Guildo

Painting in Art Gallery Notre Dame de Guildo

 

 

 

 

 

 

Travel News

Useful Websites Reviews of useful websites.  This month read about "La Poste"

Nuit Noire sur Dinard new crime thriller set in Dinard

Monte Carlo Weddings  plan your French Wedding

Do not be stung by the Pine Caterpillar new immigrant to northern France

The Old Black Dog

French Pub with English influence.   

Reiki Master and Crystal Healer Philippa Wood

Thatched cottage

Travel around the towns of the Route de la Baie de Mont Saint Michel  include seeing  the glassworks of Martine Durand Gasselin.

Lotus Blossom Institute

Elizabeth Jeffs offers beauty treatments in Brittany

Breton Cheddar?! Cheddar Cheese made in Brittany, France,  by Erica Hicks

Sending   emails Experiencing probems  when in France? Click here for an answer

Alliance Française the fun way to learn French

Focus on Gers in the Midi Pyrénées

Fish and Chips in Dinan!

Patrick Bent Author - detective novels set in the Brittany coastal towns of St. Malo, St. Cast, Erquy etc.

Gardening holiday at the mystical Chateau Bellenau in Normandy

UK Tree Surgeon  in Brittany

Station Kid Award Resorts

Cruising Holidays in France with Crown Blue Lines

Pierres Sonnantes at Notre Dame de Guildo

Rochefort-en-Terre beautiful craft town

Visit Fourgères

Dinan - History and Attractions

EARLIER ARTICLES

CLICK HERE

 

Channel France logo