...which is high above the town. Take away the vehicles, the pedestrian footbridge and the wind-turbines and it looked exactly like this a hundred plus years ago... I find that rather comforting.
@maggiemae The 10th August 1944 the retreating Nazis mined the main bridge (not shown in my image) over the canal but a local man, Sébastien Duval, cut the cables leading to the mines before the detonation was programmed. Then, the following day, with the help of Emile Bénéat and Auguste Rouland and under the protection of Marcel Charlès father and son, they demined the bridge and threw the explosives in the canal. Châteaulin thus survived, relatively unscathed.
This view is a wonderful example of town planning! We so often can't see such detail and whilst a detailed map helps, IMHO it'll never have the 'Wow' factor of a photo. Hang on in there!
It is a pretty town. I'm pretty sure we took our yacht up the river to there in 1999. Do the bridges open? If they don,t that might be why we only went that far. Nice shot.
@jeneurell Thanks - most don't open: at Châteaulin you would perhaps have passed under the former railway viaduct (my picture 15 May) but not the road bridge... unless you could easily drop the mast.
