In the heart of Locronan

Park in one of the many car parks at the entrance to Locronan from 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, take Venelle du Prieuré and follow it to its end, ignoring two alleys on your left. Continue along a path (wooden sign Hent ar Gwengad) and turn left to join Rue Saint-Maurice, which leads down to the church.

(1) Turn right into a passage between the church and the cemetery.
On the right, note a small garden in honour of Donatien Laurent, an ethnologist who did a great deal of work on the troménie of Locronan, and, at the entrance to the cemetery, the gravestone of a surgeon in Napoleon's army, who was originally buried in Locronan.
At the exit opposite a bar, turn right, then left to pass in front of the town hall and the museum, with its imposing granite façade.
Turn right into the pedestrian passageway that runs alongside the town hall car park. At the wooden barrier, go down to the left via a pedestrian passageway until you reach a street (barrier).
Go down this street on the left and pass a small flower-filled square (Place des Charettes, with a blue cart). Continue straight ahead and, at the corner of the house (signposted "minéraux - fossiles"), turn right into the beautiful Rue Moal, which slopes downwards.
This street offers a beautiful view of Douarnenez Bay. On your left, you will see an old weaver's house (with the inscription 1768 above the door).

After No. 8, turn right into a discreet grassy alleyway and, at the end, go up to the right along the street that leads to the back of Place des Charrettes. Turn left into a discreet grassy alleyway with rustic benches. At the end, keep left into a dead-end street going downhill and continue straight ahead onto a footpath that leads to a crossroads.

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

Continue straight ahead along a path, then turn left before a road. Turn left again to go up a small road, which you follow for a few dozen metres.

(3) Before the sign for Locronan, at a wooden sign for Karront ar Chapel Nevez, turn left onto a path and follow it to a larger cross-path (wooden sign for Karront ar Rosilin).
Go up to the right and, at the top, turn left into an alleyway to reach the Place de l'Église, Locronan's central square: view of the square tower of the bell tower of Saint-Ronan Church and the imposing houses with granite facades.
Head right (well) towards the church (open to visitors, usually open) and ignore the main street on the right.

(1) Turn right into Rue Lann and follow it to the end. At the Crédit Agricole bank, which has respected the stone architecture of Locronan, turn left into Rue du Prieuré and, at the end, you will 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.
Importance of granite buildings, often with dates inscribed in the stone.

Saint-Ronan Church.

Stained glass windows in the Bonne Nouvelle Chapel.

Locronan, city of weavers.

Charles Danielou Museum.