Les Monts d’Arrée

Les Monts d'Arrée are the highest area of Brittany. Although the highest peaks do not reach impressive heights (384 meters for the Tuchenn Gador, le signal de Toussaines), the reliefs are quite real and the panoramas are truly magnificent. 

The regions hardly shelters 40 inhabitants in the square kilometre, because of a very rude climate. The winters are cold, windy and rainy, and it is not rare that the peaks are even snow-covered. The summer, the area becomes quickly a true furnace... In short, not a very welcoming area! But the landscapes are original and often breathtaking: mounts sculpted by erosion, rocky peaks, infinite moors, deep forests... Few places in Brittany profit from so varied landscapes! It is undoubtedly the hardness of the area which make of it one of the high places of the Breton imaginary. Few places were that much frequented by the Devil! The locals even say that the gates of Hell are in the peat-bogs of Yeun Elez...

Mounts of Arrée

Yeun Elez: Another place of legends! In the heart of the monts d'Arrée, Yeun Elez is a peat-bogs zone, partly transformed into lake for the needs of the power station of Brennilis. Per time of fog, the place is magic and even distressing. It is undoubtedly for this reason that the legends locate in the area the gates of Hell; often drowned in the fog, the marsh was regarded as the beginning of the underground world. The marsh is however not Hell, since it constitutes a paradise for numerous birds (ducks, martins-fishermen, ashy curlew...) and...The castors! Indeed, 10 beavers established in 1969 on the banks of Ellez proliferated! Many paths permit to discover the site.

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