Commune of Concarneau The yacht harbor of Concarneau
Location
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Administration
Country	France
Region	Bretagne
Department	Finistère
Arrondissement	Quimper
Canton	Concarneau (chief town)
Intercommunality
Mayor	Gilbert Le Bris (2001-2008)
Statistics
Land area¹	41.08 km²
Population² (1999)	19,453
- Density (1999)	474/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	29039/ 29900
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: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

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The town has two distinct area the modern town on the mainland and the medieval Ville Close, a walled town on a long island in the centre of the harbour. The Ville Close is now devoted to tourism with many restaurants and shops aimed at tourism. However restraint has been shown in resisting the worst excesses of souvenir shops. Also in the Ville Close is the fishing museum. The Ville Close is connected to the town by a draw bridge and at the other end a ferry to the village of Lanriec on the other side of the harbour.

In August the town holds the annual Fête Filets Bleus (Festival of the Blue nets). The festival named after the traditional blue nets of Concarneau's fishing fleet, is a celebration of Breton and pan-Celtic culture. Such festival can occur throughout Brittany but the Filets Bleus is one of the oldest and largest attracting in excess of a thousand costumed participants with many times the number of observers. In 2005 the 100th festival was celebrated.

Economy

Fishing, particularly for tuna, has long been the primary economic activity in Concarneau. Concarneau is one of the biggest fishing ports in France. Since the 1980s, other industries have arisen, such as boat construction and summer tourism. Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish by hooking, trapping, or gathering. ...

The Ville Close separates the working port from the yacht basin.

Famous Concarnois

• Michel Desjoyeaux, navigator
• Guy Cotten, founder of a clothes factory
• Paul Gauguin

Michel Desjoyeaux (born 16 July 1965 in Concarneau, is a French sailor, and one of the worlds most successful solo sailors. ... Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (June 7, 1848 – May 9, 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist artist. ...

Twinning

• Bielefeld, Germany since 1969
• Mbour, Senegal since 1974
• Penzance, UK since 1982

Bielefeld is an district-free town in the Regierungsbezirk Detmold in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... The beach at Mbour MBour or Mbour is a town on the Petite Côte in Senegal, lying south of Dakar. ... Penzance Harbour and surrounding area as seen from the air Penzance (Cornish: Pensans) is a civil parish and port town in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, UK. Granted various Royal Charters from 1512 onwards and incorporated in 1614,[2] it has a population of 21,168[1] people and...

External links

• (French) Cultural Heritage

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