Le Cap d'Erquy - Bretagne - Côtes d'Armor

 

Le corps de garde "des trois pierres"

Un site rare - Une nature authentique (à découvrir)

  

"Les quatre vents" - Vue sur le cap Fréhel (au fond)

"Le Crocodile assoupi"

Erquy - vu en surplomb de la plage de Caroual

 

Cap d’Erquy

Un site rare, une nature authentique : falaises et rochers de grès rose, lande sauvage, bois de pins, dunes, mer d’émeraude sur les plages sauvages …
Un lieu chargé d’histoire : four à boulets, corps de garde, anciennes carrières, sentier des douaniers…
Le Cap d’Erquy est un site classé de 170 ha propriété du Conseil Général des Côtes d’Armor depuis 1977. 

Cape Erquy
A rare site, a beautiful nature: cliffs and rocks of red sandstone, moor, pine forests, dunes, emerald sea on the wild beaches …
A place steeped in history: oven ball, guardroom, old quarries, coastal footpath …Cape Erquy is a listed site of 170 hectares owned by the Council of Côtes d’Armor since 1977.
Stunning scenery to discover hiking, bike and boat.
The guardroom of three stones,
built around 1744, still possessed at the beginning of last century a gatehouse, now defunct. This building was involved in a vast defensive system initiated by Louis XVI, who established companies coast guard assigned to guard and batteries on the coast of all Britain.
The oven ball was completed in 1794 : the cannon balls were heated red would allow to burn enemy ships!