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Guissény (; ) is a
commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...
in the
Finistère Finistère (, ; br, Penn-ar-Bed ) is a department of France in the extreme west of Brittany. In 2019, it had a population of 915,090.
department of
Brittany Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period ...
in north-western
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.


Geography

Guissény is a coastal town lying in the English Channel, it is part of the "Pays de pagan", limited to the northeast by a marine gulf, the gulf (or cove) of Tressény, into which flows a small coastal river, the Quillimadec, which separates it from Kerlouan, and to the west by the Porz Olier (limited to the east by the tip of Dibennou and to the west by that of Beg ar Skeïz), a small residual marine gulf that was once much larger, most of which has been transformed, due to the construction of a dyke, by man into a polder (La Palud de Curnic, where salt marshes once existed) or a pond (Étang du Curnic) which separates Guissény from Plouguerneau, the town s 'extending westward to include a good part of the beach of Vougo (Vougot), the other part being in Plouguerneau; the coastal dunes reach an altitude of up to 13 meters at a place called “la Sècherie”. To the west of Curnic, the coastal platform is several hundred meters wide and includes a few emerged rocky islets: Karreg Hir (the Karreg Hir causeway extends northwest to the rocks of Lizenn Du and includes numerous islets emerging at low tide), Golhédoc, Énez Du, Tilloc, Énez Croaz-Hent (the latter now being linked to the mainland by a dyke).


Population

The inhabitants of Guissény are called ''Guisséniens'' in French.


Breton language

In 2009, 21.55% of primary-school children attended
bilingual schools Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. More than half of all E ...
, where Breton language is taught alongside French. ''Ofis ar Brezhoneg''
''Enseignement bilingue''


See also

*
Communes of the Finistère department The following is a list of the 277 communes of the Finistère department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2022):List of the works of Bastien and Henry Prigent


References


Mayors of Finistère Association
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External links


Official website
Communes of Finistère {{Finistère-geo-stub