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Les Rochers de Ploumanac'h
Ploumanac'h is a hamlet of Perros-Guirec, about three kilometres from the centre, in the heart of the Pink Granite Coast. Its granite massif is made up of three concentric haloes of different rocks, which makes it a real open-air museum for geologists. The granite, more than 300 million years old, is made of mica, quartz and feldspar. Frost and water have eroded it into rounded blocks, sometimes balanced, that take on a vivid pink tint at dusk.
The customs officers' path, part of the GR 34, runs along the coast among these rocky chaos. It passes close to two beaches, the Anse Saint-Guirec and the Bastille, and near the tide mill. According to legend, Saint Guirec landed here in the seventh century. An eleventh-century oratory and a chapel rebuilt by monks in the sixteenth century recall this tradition.
The small harbour has about 250 moorings. Ploumanac'h was voted "the French people's favourite village" in 2015, which increased its visitor numbers. The Perros-Guirec tourist office provides information on the routes.
