Lanvallay is a town of Cotes d'Armor in Brittany.
Its territory of nearly 15 square kilometers is located on the right bank of the River Rance, Dinan face which extends on the left bank, the two towns located about twenty kilometers from the coast.
Their fate has joined from the fifteenth century when a bridge over the river was built, complete with a viaduct in the nineteenth century.
Until then, the site had been occupied during Lanvallay ancient (Roman roads, the presence of a villa), then, on the right bank of the Rance, three villages comprising three parishes had developed: Lanvallay, Saint- Solen and Tressaint. The three entities merged in the 1970s.
Meanwhile, this set was urbanized and had taken advantage of commercial traffic on the Rance, channeled in the nineteenth century.
With now nearly 4200 inhabitants, Lanvallay has preserved its heritage and its natural environment closely linked over the Rance. Assets complemented by a varied leisure offer that make this town a step always green interest during a stay on the north coast of Brittany.
In terms of heritage sites and several notable items worth observed during a walk "discovery". This tour can start with the Saint-Meen church, rebuilt in 1844. The tower, a square tower of granite composed of two levels and topped with two domes, was however completed until 1847. As for the great stained glass window of the choir, he was acquired from the Carmelites of Le Mans in 1866, destroyed by a storm in 1894, it was reconstituted identically... And in 1920, this time it's a violent fire that affected the church, which had to be large part then rebuilt, but still the same.
See then, Castle Landeboulou (XVII and XVIII) and the port says Dinan-Lanvallay, made originally by a Benedictine priory. Manhandled during the Hundred Years War, the site established on both sides of the Rance develops under the "reign" of the Duchess Anne (XV end early sixteenth) and has 1730 granite quays. Trade is flourishing then and they are importing canvas sails produced in the country of Dinan.
The nineteenth century was a turning point: the tonnage of ships becomes more important and therefore the traffic slows, while the railway viaduct and a new competing shipping. Now, the port saw that through tourism.
Admired to the passage leading to the overpass Dinan, completed in 1852, along 288 m, composed of 10 arches and overlooking the Rance 40 m high.
Castles Grillemont and Beauvais, several mansions of noble bill, Chapel Tressaint with the Celtic cross is protected as historical monuments or calvaries also punctuate this journey, not to mention the venerable yew, before the church of St. Solen, classified "remarkable tree".
In terms of cultural activities, exhibitions are offered regularly at the village hall or town hall (information 02 96 39 15 June) and events scheduled at the town library as meetings, lectures or workshops (information +33 2 96 85 90 72).
In regard to sports or "nature" recreation, playgrounds and family walk are located on different points of the city: between the nursing home and the church of Lanvallay (playhouse, swing, games for adults, including for the disabled, table picnic...), Orchard St. Solen (with picnic table and 50 m balance course) or to Tressaint near the village hall.
More dedicated to teenagers, a multi-sports field, a synthetic football pitch or a skate park are also available.
Always for sport, rowing on the Rance can be practiced in conjunction with the Yacht Club (Contact +33 2 96 39 57 40) and canoeing (attach February 96 39 01 50).
And for a short book, contact the Tennis Club of Lanvallay +33 7 86 50 73 13.
As for hiking, near the Rance or woodlands of the town helped to mark different circuits: the first 5 km long connects the Old Village to the Rance, the second 8km goes from the town of Lanvallay to Chantoiseau with the passage of the views of Dinan Port, the plain of Taden, a third of 11 km following the Rance to Tressaint and last, of 5 km, is drawn around Saint-Solen, and through the forest Coëtquen.
Note also the sporting course designed in wood Tressaint of 13 hectares, the "garden of the Madeleine," above the port Lanvallay, which presented a beautiful collection of ash.
For these trails or larger loops to monitor the Rance downstream to its mouth, maps and information +33 2 96 87 69 77.
Can finally not to step in the House of Rance, fitted near the port of Dinan-Lanvallay in a renovated farmhouse.
This eco-museum aims to present a fun way the fauna and flora of the Valley through exhibitions, conferences, but also hiking trips or boat. Moreover, permanently accessible, the discovery trail the Marais Old River, dotted with 12 stations, was traced near the house, always with the aim to observe the fauna and flora of this singular remarkable ecosystem.
The House of Rance is open from April to October and during school holidays. Information at +33 2 96 87 00 40.
