Pont-Aven will represent Brittany in the "Favorite Village of the French"

After the island of Sein and Pont-Croix, it is another town in Finistère, in this case Pont-Aven, which will have the heavy task of defending the colors of Brittany this year in the program for France 3 Le favorite village of the French . It was the mayor Jean-Marie Le Bret who released the scoop on Saturday during the vows ceremony, without waiting for the green light from the production.

Superb view of Pont Aven thank you @leti_anais # Finistère #Brittany #MagnifiqueFrance pic.twitter.com/bdUG8hPK1a

"I was so happy that I launched this into the heat of the action," smiled the interested party, contacted by 20 Minutes . "And then it's not every day that we receive good news," he adds.

International fame thanks to painters

Small town of 2,800 inhabitants located between Concarneau and Quimperlé, Pont-Aven already enjoys international renown. It owes much to its painters, starting with Henry Bacon who was charmed by the village by stopping there a little by chance in 1864. "It is the prettiest village in France that I had seen until present, with its strange bridge over a fast river, which turns several picturesque water wheels and goes towards the sea, at a short distance ", will say the American painter at the end of his trip .

After the Pont-Aven museum where it was presented, the beautiful and fascinating exhibition around the Talisman by Paul Sérusier is to be seen at the Musée d'Orsay. With this founding work, a manifesto of synthetism and an icon of the Nabi, we are offered a trip to Brittany. pic.twitter.com/cbnmOERi4n

Paul Gauguin also stayed there in the 1880s, paving the way for other famous painters such as Emile Bernard or Paul Sérusier. Created in 1985, the Pont-Aven museum also bears witness to this golden age of the Pont-Aven school.

The washerwomen at Pont Aven
Gauguin - 1886 pic.twitter.com/ms86afh55h

"We welcome each year nearly 100,000 visitors, making it the most visited museum in Brittany," said the mayor of Pont-Aven, also highlighting "the beautiful old houses and the pleasant surroundings" of his town. To be convinced, it will however be necessary to wait until June, the program being usually scheduled just before the summer.

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