Guingamp
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Guingamp ( ; ) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France. With a population of 7,115 as of 2020, Guingamp is one of the smallest towns in Europe to have had a top-tier professional football team: En Avant Guingamp, which played in Ligue 1 from 2013 until 2019. The Guingamp station is served by high-speed trains to Brest, Rennes and Paris, and regional trains to Brest, Lannion, Carhaix, Paimpol and Rennes.
Guingamp ( ; ) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France. With a population of 7,115 as of 2020, Guingamp is one of the smallest towns in Europe to have had a top-tier professional football team: En Avant Guingamp, which played in Ligue 1 from 2013 until 2019. The Guingamp station is served by high-speed trains to Brest, Rennes and Paris, and regional trains to Brest, Lannion, Carhaix, Paimpol and Rennes.
History
The town contains the remains of three successive castles, the last of which was razed to the ground by the order of Cardinal Richelieu in the early 17th century. They were reduced to three towers. Vincent de Bourbon, great-grandson of Louis XIV, was Count of Guingamp from 1750 to his death in 1752.
Population
Sports
The city is well-known for its professional football team, En Avant de Guingamp, which won the Coupe de France against Rennes in the 2008–09 season while playing in Ligue 2. The team returned to Ligue 1 for the 2013–14 season for the first time in 9 years. Guingamp again won the French Cup against Rennes in 2013–14 and qualified for the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League. With 18,120 seats, the Stade de Roudourou which is the club's stadium has a capacity greater than the total population of Guingamp (7,115 inhabitants1).
Culture
The Saint Loup festival, a national competition of Breton dances and international festival, takes place every in around mid August. It culminates in a traditional dance called la Dérobée de Guingamp. The festival features Celtic musicians from Asturias, Ireland, Galicia, Scotland, Wales, and elsewhere. Breton dance features in other cultural manifestations and the local cultural office organizes a contemporary creative dance week. The municipality launched a plan for the Breton language through Ya d'ar brezhoneg on 8 July 2008. In 2008, 15.89% of primary school children attended bilingual schools. The annual 'pardon' brings pilgrims to pay homage to the 'Black Virgin' in the Basilica of Notre Dame de Bon Secours.
Personalities
Joseph Guy Ropartz, composer Théophile Marie Brébant, Colonel in the French Army
Twin towns – sister cities
Guingamp is twinned with: Shannon, Ireland, since 1991 Aue, Germany, since 2011 Urbino, Italy
See also
Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department Élie Le Goff, sculptor of Guingamp statue of Joan of Arc
References
External links
Guingamp Tourist Office (in French)
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