Discover the heritage history of Quiberon

On the seafront, towards Conguel, you will pass the stele commemorating the sinking of Carl Beck, a Norwegian battleship, victim of a storm. Many other ships sank all around the peninsula leaving in their wrecks many objects which are sometimes moving: A cannon was found on the wreck of the Thracia, an English merchant ship, sailing from Spain to Scotland and sunk off of the lighthouse des Birvideaux by a submarine during the First World War.

A diver's shoe was discovered among the remains of the Artiglio which sank in 1930 trying to blow up a wreck in front of the island of Houat. This weighted sole lead weighs no less than 5 kilos. These remains of shipwrecks, as well as the detailed history of wrecks, are to be discovered at the Heritage House of Quiberon.

Megaliths witnesses of a very old habitat

Set back from the coastal road, hide the recumbent menhir with, on its upper face, some cups - these small circular cavities dug by hand - and the imposing menhir Goulvars with its 5.10m high!

Returning to the road, you may notice the Conguel dolmen, unfortunately badly damaged: it was a Neolithic tomb formerly covered by a cairn. It contained ceramics that are distinguished by their shape and decor of lines deeply incised in the clay with the help of a rod. They gave the name of Poteries de Conguel to all similar potteries found later and are now visible at the National Archaeological Museum in St Germain en Laye.