In the heart of Locronan

Park in one of the many car parks at the entrance to Locronan off the D63.

Since 2025, parking in Locronan has been subject to a charge: €5 all year round.

(S/E) With your back to the car park, turn into Venelle du Prieuré and follow it to the end, ignoring the two side streets on your left. Continue along a path (wooden sign: Hent ar Gwengad) and turn left to join Rue Saint-Maurice, which leads down towards the church.

(1) Turn right into a passageway between the church and the cemetery.
“On the right, note a small garden dedicated to Donatien Laurent, an ethnologist who carried out extensive research on the Tromenie of Locronan, and, at the entrance to the cemetery, a gravestone belonging to a surgeon in Napoleon’s army, who was originally buried in Locronan.”
At the junction opposite a bar, turn right, then left to walk past the town hall and the museum, with its imposing granite façade.
Turn right into the footpath that runs alongside the town hall car park. At a wooden gate, head down to the left via a footpath until you reach a street (gate).
Walk down this street to the left, passing a small, flower-filled square (Place des Charettes, with a blue cart). Continue straight on and, at the corner of the house (sign for ‘minerals – fossils’), turn right onto the lovely, sloping Rue Moal.
From this street, there is a lovely view over Douarnenez Bay. On your left, note an old weaver’s house (with ‘1768’ inscribed above the door).

After No. 8, turn right into a discreet, grassy alleyway and, at the end, head up to the right along the street that leads to the back of Place des Charrettes. Turn left into a discreet grassy alley lined with very rustic benches. At the end of the alley, keep left into a downhill cul-de-sac and continue straight on along a footpath which leads to a crossroads.

(2) Turn left and, at the rubbish bins, take a narrow path on the left that runs alongside the properties (including an imposing thatched cottage). Cross a street and continue straight ahead along the path overlooking some beautiful houses, one of which is decorated with ceramics. At the end, first turn left then right towards the wayside cross, the Chapel of Notre-Dame de Bonne Nouvelle and its majestic fountain (the chapel is usually open; it features beautiful modern stained-glass windows by Manessier, a French non-figurative painter who has inspired several stained-glass works across Europe).

Carry on straight ahead along a path, then turn left just before a road. Turn left again to head up towards a small road, which you follow uphill for a few dozen metres.

(3) Before the sign marking the entrance to Locronan, at a wooden sign reading ‘Karront ar Chapel Nevez’, turn left onto a path and follow it until you reach a wider cross-path (wooden sign reading ‘Karront ar Rosilin’).
Head uphill to the right and, at the top, turn left into a narrow lane to reach the Place de l’Église, Locronan’s main square: views of the square bell tower of Saint Ronan’s Church and the imposing houses with their granite façades.
Head right (past the well) towards the church (which you can visit – it’s usually open) and ignore the main street on your right.

(1) Turn right onto Rue Lann and follow it to the end. At the Crédit Agricole branch – which has been built in keeping with Locronan’s traditional stone architecture – turn left onto Rue du Prieuré and, at the end of this street, you’ll find the car parks at the entrance to Locronan (S/E).

Please note: parking is subject to a charge during the summer season.
Toilets: at the Rue des Charettes and Rue du Prieuré car parks.
Simple walking shoes are sufficient.
There are a few yellow and blue markings that I have not mentioned because they are only followed for very short distances.

Picturesque streets, alleys and lanes.
Granite buildings are prominent, often with dates inscribed in the stone.

Saint Ronan’s Church.

Stained-glass windows in the Bonne Nouvelle Chapel.

Locronan, the town of weavers.

The Charles Danielou Museum.