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Pointe de Dinan
The Pointe de Dinan is a rocky headland of the Crozon peninsula, south of Camaret-sur-Mer, in the Finistère. Its Breton name combines beg, the point, and dinn, the hill. You can see a natural arch of Armorican sandstone that evokes a fortress gate and is called the château de Dinan. From Kerloc'h beach, on the other side of the cove, you can glimpse it at low tide.
The geology of the place is remarkable: Silurian schists and quartzitic sandstones about 420 million years old, which sea erosion has hollowed into caves, then arches and rocky islets. On the neighbouring coast, Porzh Koubou beach, in the Kerguillé cove, is protected as a remarkable area of Brittany, with a deposit of pebbles cemented by iron. The site offers jagged cliffs and views over the Dinan cove and the Pointe de Pen-Hir.
