La Trinité-sur-Mer

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Coordinates: 47°35′10″N 3°01′42″W / 47.58611, -3.02833

Commune of La Trinité-sur-Mer

An Drinded-Karnag

View of the port from the Pont de Kerisper which leads to Saint-Philibert

Location

Coordinates

47°35′10″N 3°01′42″W / 47.58611, -3.02833

Administration

Quiberon

C.C. de la Côte des Mégalithes

Mayor

Claude Le Goffe
(2001-2008)

Statistics

Elevation

0 m–31 m

Land area^¹

6.20 km²

Population^²
(1999)

1,530

- Density

247/km² (1999)

Miscellaneous

INSEE/Postal code

56258/ 56470

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

La Trinité-sur-Mer (An Drinded-Karnag in Breton), is a small French village on the coast of Brittany, east of Carnac. With approximately 1,500 inhabitants, the town is primarily a port, with a seaside quay dotted by numerous seafood restaurants. Notably, it was the birthplace of right-wing politician Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1928. The town is also known for its watersport competitions.

Separated from the well known commune of Carnac in 1864, several of the famous neolithic standing stones in the Carnac stones fall within its boundaries, including the dolmens of Kerdeneven and Kermarquer, and the Petit-Ménec Alignments.

1 Landmarks
2 Demographics
3 Born in La Trinité-sur-Mer
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Landmarks

The Pont de Kerisper connects the commune to the neighbouring Saint-Philibert. The current bridge is a replacement, built in 1956, of the previous bridge which was destroyed by German bombing. ^[1]