Old stone Locronan (Finistère)

The "mountain of Locronan" with its 289 meters is one of the highest points of the massive Black Mountains, characterized by outcrops of leucogranite along an axis starting from the Pointe du Raz and up near Lizio Lanvaux2 moors. The place called Ar Plas Horn, at the top of the "Mountain" of the Priory, which is backed Locronan, offers a splendid panorama of the plain of Porzay, the Menez-Hom and the Bay of Douarnenez as a whole. Outcrops of leucogranite
two forests are close to Locronan: Forest Nevett, once frequented by St. Ronan and King Gradlon, located in the territory of the municipality of Juche and the Duke Forest, located in the territory of that of Quéménéven. The site
Locronan is a former senior Druidic place of worship was located in the woods of Nevett. "The nemeton Locronan is a large square of a dozen miles of perimeter, with twelve points outstanding, representing the twelve months of the Celtic year, probably marked by twelve standing stones (since replaced by the 12 crosses marking the 12" stations "the great Tromenie). The function of sacred nemeton was the earthly representative of the course of the stars in heaven, he described the space in the twelve months of the year at the same time each month was devoted to a divinity of the Celtic pantheon. " Other Celtic traditions persist in Locronan, for example that the "bread of the dead" on All Saints' Day or that of the "tree of May" on May 1 ..