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Lannion
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LANNION
, set amid plummeting hills and stairways, is a historic city with streets of medieval housing and a couple of interesting old churches - but it's also a centre for a burgeoning and extremely high-tech telecommunications industry, and one of modern Brittany's real success stories, hence its rather self-satisfied nickname,
ville heureuse
or "happy town". In addition to admiring the half-timbered houses around the
place de General-Leclerc
and along
rue des Chapeliers
, it's well worth climbing from the town up the 142 granite steps which lead to the twelfth-century Templar
Eglise de Brelevenez
. This church was remodelled three hundred years later to incorporate a granite bell tower, and the views from its terrace are quite stupendous.
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