Saint-Cast-le-Guildo (; ; Gallo: ''Saent-Cast-le-Giledo'') is a commune in the
Côtes-d'Armor
The Côtes-d'Armor ( , ; ; , ), formerly known as Côtes-du-Nord until 1990 (, ), is a department in the north of Brittany, in northwestern France. In 2019, it had a population of 600,582.department of
Brittany
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in northwestern
France
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. It is port city on the
English Channel
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as it also has a nautical center, the Centre Nautique de Saint-Cast (CNSC) ranked 3rd to 6th in the nation.
The river Arguenon flows through the commune, where it empties into the sea.
History
The Battle of St Cast took place on September 11, 1758, when the French repelled the English. The English first attacked the region of Dinard by sea, but were stopped at the Rance by the Vauban fortifications. They were forced to retreat to their fleet in front of St-Cast, where Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu was waiting for them and launched an attack on the beach while the British were fleeing back onto their vessels. The casualties were heavy for the British army as they lost 1,160 soldiers: the French lost about 445 men. Today there is a monument in the Bourg (neighborhood of St-Cast) showing a greyhound defeating a lion; the Castins defeating a lion (the English symbol).
Population
Inhabitants of Saint-Cast-le-Guildo are called ''castins'' in French. In 1971 the former commune of Notre-Dame-de-Guildo was absorbed into Saint-Cast-le-Guildo.
Food
Saint-Cast features many of the typical dishes of Breton cuisine, such as the Kouign-amann, or the local specialty, ''Le Castin'', which is originally what we call people from there, or in this case the cake.
Irène Aïtoff
Irène Aïtoff (30 July 1904 – 5 June 2006) was a French pianist and vocal coach.
Biography
Born in Saint-Cast-le-Guildo, Saint-Cast (Côtes-d'Armor), Aïtoff was admitted in the Conservatoire de Paris after having been introduced to Alfred ...
(1904–2006), classical pianist and vocal coach
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Anne Beaumanoir
Anne Beaumanoir (30 October 1923 – 4 March 2022) was a French neurophysiologist. For her aid to Jews in Brittany during the Second World War, she as well as her parents were recognised as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. A militant ...
(1923–2022), neurophysiologist, one of the
Righteous Among the Nations
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Climate
Saint-Cast-le-Guildo has an
oceanic climate
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Köppen climate classification
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''Cfb''). The average annual temperature in Saint-Cast-le-Guildo is . The average annual rainfall is with October as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around , and lowest in February, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Saint-Cast-le-Guildo was on 5 August 2003; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 17 January 1985.
See also
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Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department
The following is a list of the 348 communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):