Trégastel

Trégastel (French pronunciation: [tʁeɡastɛl]; Breton: Tregastell) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of the region of Brittany in northwestern France.

Trégastel Tregastell
Commune
Trégastel beach
Coat of arms
Location of Trégastel
Trégastel Trégastel
Coordinates: 48°48′41″N 3°29′56″W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Côtes-d'Armor
Arrondissement	Lannion
Canton	Perros-Guirec
Intercommunality	Lannion-Trégor Communauté
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Xavier Martin
Area 1	7.00 km2 (2.70 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	2,541
• Density	360/km2 (940/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	22353 /22730
Elevation	0–71 m (0–233 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Trégastel is situated between Perros-Guirec and Pleumeur-Bodou. Lannion is 10 kilometres away.

Population

Inhabitants of Trégastel are called trégastellois in French.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 867 —     1800 659 −3.84% 1806 709 +1.23% 1821 862 +1.31% 1831 944 +0.91% 1836 1,011 +1.38% 1841 985 −0.52% 1846 1,031 +0.92% 1851 1,113 +1.54% 1856 1,036 −1.42% 1861 1,078 +0.80% 1866 1,080 +0.04% 1872 1,086 +0.09% 1876 1,078 −0.18% 1881 1,096 +0.33% 1886 1,141 +0.81% 1891 1,108 −0.59% 1896 1,224 +2.01%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 1,250 +0.42% 1906 1,361 +1.72% 1911 1,286 −1.13% 1921 1,320 +0.26% 1926 1,467 +2.13% 1931 1,398 −0.96% 1936 1,449 +0.72% 1946 1,521 +0.49% 1954 1,687 +1.30% 1962 1,670 −0.13% 1968 1,742 +0.71% 1975 2,013 +2.09% 1982 2,063 +0.35% 1990 2,201 +0.81% 1999 2,234 +0.17% 2007 2,397 +0.88% 2012 2,451 +0.45% 2017 2,465 +0.11%
Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968-2017)

Breton language

The municipality launched a linguistic plan through Ya d'ar brezhoneg in February 2008.

In 2008, 16.5% of primary school children attended bilingual schools.

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France

Twin towns – sister cities

Trégastel is twinned with:

• Foz, Galicia, Spain (2003)
• Koussané, Mali (2004)

Religious monuments

• St Laurent Church in the bourg
• Ste Anne des rochers chapel
• St Golgon chapel

The Costaérès castle

In 1892, Bruno Abakanowicz bought a small island called Costaérès in Trégastel, where by 1896 he had erected a neo-Gothic manor.

Marine aquarium of Trégastel

Since 1967, Trégastel has been home to a marine aquarium, built within a large, naturally occurring, outcrop of pink granite rocks.

Gallery

The château de Costaérès in Trégastel, and the seven islands in the background

• 
  La palette du peintre
  (The painter's palette)
• 
  Le dé (The dice) and
  Les tortues (The turtles)
• 
  Le tas de crêpes
  (The pile of crêpes)
• 
  Le Roi Gradlon
  (Gradlon King)
• 
  24h de la voile regatta
• 
  The tide mill on Ploumanac'h Road
• 
  Ste-Anne-des-Rochers chapel
• 
  December 2010
• 
  Natural granite ball (2–3 ft in diameter) close to Renote Island

See also

• Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department
• Jentilez

External links

• Official website (in French)
• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
• French Wikipedia article on 'Aquarium Marin de Trégastel'(in French)
• Marine Aquarium of Tregastel's website(in French)
• Marine Aquarium of Tregastel in English