Pont-Aven
A small town on the River Aven, home to the Pont-Aven school of painters that Gauguin inspired, with old water mills, granite boulders and around 50 galleries.
Pont-Aven lies about 15 km east of Concarneau. The River Aven rushes between granite boulders as it passes through the town. In the past there were more than a dozen water mills, earning the town the nickname 'fourteen mills and fifteen households'. In the 1880s, Gauguin, Émile Bernard and others founded the Pont-Aven School of painting here, and today the town has about 50 galleries. The Xavier Grall path follows the river to the Bois d'Amour (Wood of Love), where Gauguin painted; the round trip takes about an hour. The local speciality is Pont-Aven butter biscuits, known as galettes de Pont-Aven.
Opening hours
All day
Nearby sights
- Musée de Pont-Aven
- Port-Manec'h
- Kerascoët
- Pointe de Trévignon
- Château de Kériolet
- Musée de la Pêche
- Ville Close of Concarneau
- Marinarium de Concarneau