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Office de Tourisme
Tel: 02 96 74 01 51
Site la ville:
To visit:
-The Quintin château: the muséum and its gardens "à la Française";
-The gardens of the former Carmelites: 18th century fountains;
-The Notre-Dame de Délivrance Basilica which holds a relic of Our Lady's belt, brought back from the Holy Land by Geoffroy Botrel, the Lord of Quintin, in 1250;
-The Workshop Museum of the Fabric of Quintin, Rue des Douves.
Going around :
-The La Perche Wood where you will be able to contemplate the Gouët stream and its chaotic rock formations;
-The menhir de la Roche Longue, 4,70 m high, remains of the prehistoric population;
-The Robien Wood and surroundings of the Château.
-The Bosmeleac Lake, in Le Bodéo.
Petite cité de caractère :
Active trading centre in Gallo-Roman times, Quintin became a lord's town in The Middle Ages.
Manufacturing and trading of linen led to prosperity for two centuries so that almost 500 weavers could be counted at the beginning of the 18th century. The Quality of the local production enabled them to gain a name in the Spanish and Latin America market: the "Quintine" linen...The shipping of this production was assured by shipowners from Nantes and Saint-Malo . Today, the architecture of some houses still recalls the Malouinière style.
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