Miniac Morvan city

Geographical situation Miniac-Morvan city - Map :

Miniac-Morvan city is located at the north of Ille Et Vilaine to 20 km of Saint-Malo (Sub-prefecture) and to 50 km of Rennes (Prefecture).

Miniac-Morvan is integrated in the canton of Châteauneuf d' Ille Et Vilaine which also includes the cities of Lillemer, Saint-Père Marc en Poulet, Ville-Es-Nonais, Le Tronchet, Saint-Suliac, Saint-Guinoux and Plerguer and also of the community of agglomeration of Saint-Malo which includes 17 cities.

Our city is crossed by 2 major roads which are the RN 137 (Rennes - Saint-Malo) and the RN 176 (Dol - Dinan) as well as the railway Dol - Dinan.

             It is bordering on the department of the Côtes d’Armor : It is touch Pleudihen Sur Rance city. In the department of Ille Et Vilaine, this city has common borders with the following cities :
               ·        In the east : Plerguer, Le Tronchet
                ·        In the north : Saint-Guinoux, Saint-Père Marc en Poulet
                ·        In the west : Châteauneuf, La Ville-Es-Nonais, Pleudihen
                ·        In the south : Saint Pierre de Plesguen, Tressé.

Miniac-Morvan is a very sprawled city : 3 103 hectares.
Its population with the last census is of 3472 inhabitants.

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To arrive there :

          By the N137 road coming from Rennes and Saint-Malo exit Miniac Morvan
          By the N176 road coming from Dinan and Pontorson exit Rennes N137 and exit Miniac Morvan
          By the train, arrived in station of Saint-Malo, Dol de Bretagne or Dinan with correspondence TER or coach for Miniac morvan
          Proximity airports : Pleurtuit - Dinard - Saint-Malo airport and Rennes - Saint-Jacques airport

Transport :
Think of taking the bus for St Malo. Cost: 1,05 €

Miniac-Morvan is served by 2 lines of bus :

The Council General of the Ille-et-Vilaine transports you with :

The line 8 - Rennes / Saint-Malo. Folders available to the town hall.

and Saint-Malo Agglomeration transports you with :

The line 13 out the city - Saint-Malo / Le Tronchet. Folders available to the town hall.

Bonds towards the various pages of the site illenoo for various informations :

· To consult the illenoo network map, line 8 and schedules

·        Préparer son itinéraire sur mesure

·        Consulter l'actualité sur le réseau. Travaux, perturbations, ...

·        Consulter les tarifs

·        Les conseils d'Illenoo

Bonds towards the various pages of the site of Saint-Malo Agglomeration for various informations :

·        To consult the Interurban network map

·        To consult the schedules of bus of the regular line - Line 13

·        To consult the schedules of bus of the school line for Miniac-Morvan

·        To consult transport with the request towards Saint-Malo and the zones of activities

·        To consult transport at the request of proximity - Zone of Miniac-Morvan

History :

Miniac-Morvan, city dating from the year 1150, seems to have inherited its name its first lords Morvan of Miniac .

Miniac Morvan can also have for origin « MOR WAN » men of sea, what seems logical bus although a primarily rural parish, it was always a tank of sailors for the malouins ships (voyages of exploration, races, milked Blacks, small and great fishing).

Of its past it kept a church of the 18th century with a furnace bridge and a retable out of wooden carved of the 17th century; several castles, manors and vaults; a monument megalithic « the walk shady with four es feins » ; it had also the Mare Saint Coulban, old arm of the sea which was filled little by little and where still tree trunks fossilized appear in « couérons ».

Like all Brittany, the city was devastated by epidemics of “dyssentery” in particular in 1741 and 1779.

          Among its remarkable characters, we can cite :
                ·        Les Crambert, dynasty of masters surgeons and surgeons sailing at the 18th century
                ·        Pierre Corbinais (1761-1793) innkeeper at the time of transfered of Salerme, summoned by the Vendéens ones to shout « live the king » it answered them « live the republic and d…. for your king » and it was cut down
                ·        Bienheureuse Thérèse Madeleine Fantou (1741-1794) nun guillotined in Arras
                ·        Jeanne Jugan (of its true Jouquan patronym), founder of the small sisters of the poor, born in Cancale, but from which the great-grandfather was marry in Miniac-Morvan and his grandfather was born to with it.

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The inheritance of Miniac-Morvan