http://www.festicket.com/festival/les-vieilles-charrues-2015/
However, it meant for us thaty the place was packed with a lot of traffic diversions!
The Tourist Information Office. This was taken after the festival concluded - we would not have been able to easily get there during the festivities.
The Brest Nantes canal passes to the south of Carhaix. This is the stretch which utilises the Aulne River near Chateauneuf de Faou.
Construction of the canal was started in1811 to provide an alternate route for cargoes that were held up in Brest and Nantes due the successful Blockade of French Ports during the Napoleonic Wars. It was completed in 1858 and opened by the Emperor Napoleon III of France.
The Bon Repos Abbey near the town of Gouarec with the Brest Nantes Canal (Utilising the Blavet River at this point. The Abbey was founded in the 12th century and dissolved during the French Revolution.
A canal lock near the Bon Repos Abbey
Les Forges-des-Salles is not far from the Bon Repos Abbey. This hamlet was the centre of Iron and Steel making and was active from the 17th to 19th Cenuries
http://www.lesforgesdessalles.fr/
The Managers House
The foundry
Inside the foundry
The Gardens
The Lac de Guerledan was created by building a Dam for Hydro Electric generating purposes between 1923 and 1930 and flooded the Blavet River and that section of the Brest Nantes canal. This year the lake was drained so that maintenance works could be undertaken on the dam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Guerl%C3%A9dan
Draining the lake has uncovered traces of the canal including locks.
The remains of an old farmhouse.
http://www.lesforgesdessalles.fr/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Guerl%C3%A9dan
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