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Brest (French pronunciation: ⓘ; [3] Breton pronunciation: [4]) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany.Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of a peninsula and the western extremity of metropolitan France, [5] Brest is an important harbour and the second largest French military port after Toulon.
The wine region classification in Spain takes a quite complex hierarchical form in which the denominación de origen protegida is a mainstream grading, equivalent to the French AOC and the Italian DOC. As of 2019, Spain has 138 identifiable wine regions under some form of geographical classification (2 DOCa/DOQ, 68 DO, 7 VC, 19 VP, and 42 VT).
The arrondissement of Brest is an arrondissement of France in the Finistère department in the Brittany region. It has 77 communes . [ 2 ] Its population is 381,226 (2021), and its area is 1,396.2 km 2 (539.1 sq mi).
The roadstead of Brest (French: rade de Brest, French pronunciation: [ʁad də bʁɛst]; Breton: Lenn-vor Brest) is a roadstead or bay located in the Finistère department in Brittany in northwestern France. The surface area is about 180 km² (70 sq mi). The port of Brest and one of the two French naval bases, Brest Arsenal, are located on its ...
Brest Métropole (French pronunciation: [bʁɛst metʁɔpɔl]) is the métropole, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Brest. It is located in the Finistère department, in the Brittany region, western France. It was created in January 2015, replacing the previous Communauté urbaine de Brest. [1]
Typical landscape of Costa Brava that gives its name, "rugged coast" (coastline between Sant Feliu de Guíxols and Tossa de Mar) Landscape from Cape Creus in Cadaqués. The Costa Brava (Catalan: [ˈkɔstə ˈβɾaβə]; [a] Spanish: [ˈkosta ˈβɾaβa]; [a] "Wild Coast" or "Rough Coast") is a coastal region of Catalonia in northeastern Spain.
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Quimper is the ancient capital of Cornouaille, Brittany's most "traditional" region, and has a distinctive Breton-Celtic character, from music and dance traditions to linguistics and genetics; indeed, the historical name is also somewhat similar to "Cornwall", a region in southern England with distant cultural similarities.