Anciennes maisons d'armateurs et le quartier des marins
Going up in the village of Bourgneuf in the direction of the Church, we take the Taillée street. All along this street, there are tall houses with tiled roofs, square in shape and rather imposing. Many of them were formerly shipowners' houses. The oldest are at numbers 9 and 11. An old front door st
Presentation of: Anciennes maisons d'armateurs et le quartier des marins
From the 12th century, the "Bourg Neuf" of Saint Cyr, becomes the new port of the town. There established merchants, sailors, shipowners, traders...
At the bend of the streets, one finds names which recall the splendor of the maritime past of the town; the "sailors street", the "Goog port street", the "rope factory path" ...
Looking in detail at certain places (angles of houses, public benches ...), we still notice a few stones of Ballast left here and there, in exchange for the cargo of Salt taken at the port. These Lest stones were used to build houses, to pave certain streets ... they are traces of the maritime past of the town.
