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Hirings holidays in Brittany, Morbihan near the town of Lorient; presentation and history:
 You are in the heart of Southern Brittany, a country of a diversity which will astonish you. Here, the rivers
go to the sea. The green valleys of Blavet, Scorff, of Laïta, are the water ways come from high interior
Brittany. The fresh water mixes with water salted with the sea Celtique and the Bay of Biscay, in one of the most beautiful roads of France. Protected by the mysterious island of Groix, the roads of Lorient offer a sure
shelter to the sailors, since the Neolithic era. The Companies of the Indies were born there. They brought there their spice perfumes and
tastes of salt to the XVIIIe century. Then, the royal Navy, industrial fishing, the coastal traffic worked the Country of Lorient. The battle of
the Atlantic in made - brutally - an essential witness of the history of the XXe century.
The sailors made and remakes, this country anchored in its Celtic roots, and for better opening on the world. They accomodate you. Good arrival with you, degemer chechmate!
Born at the XVIIe century from the Company from the Indies , LORIENT is it today city-center of the 3rd agglomeration of Brittany (180 000).
The city with the five ports (pleasure, passengers, fishing, trade and soldier) cultivates its maritime and Celtic identity. In full heart of the city,
the street of the Port accomodates the peace of the pedestrians around the plantations of albizzias, an urban furniture to the marine notes, trade and architecture of the Fifties.
The Festival Interceltique of Lorient , each year in August, is the largest gathering of music throughout the world . 400 000 visitors and 4500
musicians.
In the heart of Southern Brittany, in edge of the ocean, Lorient, with its singularity of rebuilt city and its dominant architecture of the Fifties,
also allured by the convivial character of its inhabitants. In Lorient, the quality of life plays of the complementarity between the city, the
countryside and the sea. With roads among the most sheltered France, Lorient is a place of appointment for the departures, the stopovers and
the arrivals of great nautical races, or sympathetic nerves cruisings.
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