The Bigouden region is particularly rich in chapels. Hidden away in the greenery, overlooking the sea or bearing witness to history, there are around 35 of them spread across some twenty communes. Built as early as the 13th century, they are often in the so-called Pont-Croix style. However, this term is probably inaccurate: according to recent research, the Notre-Dame de Languidou chapel was built before the Pont-Croix chapels.
From the mid-15th century onwards, Bigouden chapels were inspired more by the style of Saint-Corentin Cathedral in Quimper.
Each chapel has its own particularity! Here’s a brief (non-exhaustive) classification by specificity.
If you’re looking for the chapels with the bell-tower beheaded during the Red Bonnet Revolt in 1675…
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The Red Cap revolt in the Bigouden region was a peasant uprising against new taxes imposed by Louis XIV, symbolising a rejection of royal authority.
In retaliation, the authorities had the church towers “decapitated”, i.e. the arrows removed, to humiliate the people and mark the repression.
