Quimper Audio Guided Walking Tour 1h and 23 audio reviews

A name that makes us smile, an appearance that enchants us and a scent of black wheat and mixed wheat that makes us hungry, it takes no more than Place-au-Beurre to curry favor with its visitors.

In the small town of Quimper, your eyes will quickly get used to sweeping buildings with medieval, Gothic and Renaissance architecture.

On the banks of the Odet, Quimper is rejuvenated by offering us a trip back in time, when the Roaring Twenties and the Belle Époque were in full swing.

As Quimperians will proudly point out, visiting Quimper means learning a little more about the city known as the capital of Cornwall.

Let’s ring the bells loudly, because here we are in front of what is the landmark of the city: the famous Cathedral of Saint-Corentin.

The Steïr, the Odet and the Frout are the three waterways without which the prefecture of Finistère would not be the same. A geographical plan, certainly, but also an identity plan. And yes, Quimper, from Breton kemper, means “confluence”.

If he called himself “born for Brittany”, Quimper is truly the city where his existence began. Who are we talking about?

For its beauty and pleasant surroundings, the Odet often makes a good Impression. In the Belle Époque, the river was even the preserve of aristocratic families who set up their manor houses and other castles on its banks.

A huge wooded wall, parallel to the Odet, Mont Frugy is inseparable from the landscape of Quimper. The inhabitants know him so well by heart that they don’t really pay attention to him anymore.

In the service of good food in Quimper, the Saint-François halls is a name that comes up almost systematically. With them, the premises are formal, it is all the friendliness and quality of the products of the city, and its surroundings, that come together.

Breton, warm, ancestral and authentic, Quimper is not the kind of city to give itself air. It’s even the opposite!

Slowly, but surely, you are about to cross the second stream of Quimper, the Steïr. What today is a rather trivial action, was much less so centuries ago.

Brief, but distinctive, the sound you just listened to tells you that here is one of the most photogenic places in the city.

“Another half-timbered house!” is certainly the phrase that runs through your mind or your lips as I speak to you.

A secret passage? In fact, that’s almost what friends are. Rediscovered by chance just 46 years ago, Treuz Street is now one of the tourist “musts” of the old town centre of Quimper.

While the city centre and quiet are generally not a good combination, in Quimper, the Retreat Garden does not hold back from proving the contrary. And by name alone, he's already doing it.

Breathtaking landscapes, ancient traditions very anchored, villages of character, an opening to the ocean, a gastronomy of crazy iodine, sweet, or generously buttered, Brittany makes us travel.

Place Saint-Corentin, the heart of the historic Quimper, is a concentration of beautiful buildings. In the centre is Her Majesty the Cathedral.

Adjoining the town hall of Quimper, the Musée des Beaux-Arts occupies this classical palace, since 1872, designed by the same architect as that of the spires of Saint-Corentin Cathedral.

To propose an itinerary to visit this charming Breton city, without stopping in front of this statue, and then what more... For the sake of all the premises, it is essential that you get to know the figure shown here.

Wooden floors lined with a collection of earthenware plates, you really have to be inattention not to notice this emblematic facade of Quimper.

Whether one goes to the cathedral, or comes out, to miss stopping here would be a big mistake.

Here and there, Quimper goes to great lengths to preserve the precious testimonies of its evolution over the centuries.