The Lec’h to Calan Route

Starting point: Calan village, Place du Four near the town hall. Starting sign opposite the bread oven.
Car park nearby.

(S/E) Start near the bread oven, cross the junction and take Rue de la Forge/Hent ar Vestial opposite, between the town hall and the church.

(1) Continue along the path and turn left to join Rue de Gumunen on your right. Carry on along this road and go straight on at the junction with Impasse de Parc En Hebel. Turn right into the sunken lane which curves to the left, then follow the path to the right, between the field and up the embankment, to reach the road.

(2) Cross over and turn right. Turn left. At the end of Rue de Parc Pellan, continue to the right, then turn left onto the path at the edge of the field. Go straight ahead after the chicanes, and follow the path through the woods, turning left twice. Walk along the meadow until you reach a boardwalk.

(3) Carry on and, after the boardwalk, turn right twice and cross the wetland until you reach the footbridge.

(4) Turn left after the footbridge and walk parallel to the Er Hoëh-Coh stream, sometimes through the undergrowth, sometimes along the bottom of the embankment. Below Poulgourio, turn right, then go straight on at the following junctions. Pass close to the electricity pylon and turn right. Keep left as you reach the village of Kerihuel, then go straight on to pass close to the Lec’h.

(5) Take the road on the right, then turn left as you leave the village. Take the path on the right, before turning left between the plantations and the embankment. Continue to the right through the woods and straight on at the chicanes. Turn left after the small footbridges, then right, passing close to the Kerandiot fountain. Take the path that turns left to reach the village.

(6) At Kerandiot, turn right and join the road from Calan to Lanvaudan. Turn right and take the second path on the right. Cross the road and head into the woods opposite. Follow the path which turns right into the hollow of the embankment. At the end, turn left and follow the path (twice to the left, once to the right) to Guernalan Goh.

(7) Turn left and head towards Ty Nevé Guernalan. Turn right onto the road (take care) and take the path on the right leading to the village. Turn left and walk up Rue du Levant to reach Place du Four (S/E).

This route is organised by Lorient Agglomération

This route is included in the Morbihan Departmental Plan for Walking and Hiking Routes and has been accredited by the French Hiking Federation. You can follow the yellow markings. There is an information board with a map and details of heritage sites at the start.

- Trinity Church:^10th–15th centuries. A very beautiful Romanesque church, remarkably well restored.
- Heritage sites in the village: Rectory (^19th century, now the town hall), houses (including a 16th-century farmhouse, now the library), former school (^19th century), bread ovens (three in total: one at the start, another at Hent ar Vestial, and the last on the return journey on Rue du Levant), wells (one at Hent ar Vestial, one near the library).
- Er Hoëh-coh stream valley: A wooded wetland area.
- Kerihuel: Rural houses (^18th–19th centuries) and a^19th-century bread oven.
- Kerandiot washhouse and fountain
- Kerandiot: Farmhouses (^17th–19th centuries) and a lec’h (hemispherical stele,^6th–5th centuries BC).
- Sunken path: Old path from the village to Keralloch.