Bénodet

Benodet is a small French village with 3392 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in Cornwall. It is located in Brittany, in Finistère department in the arrondissement of Quimper. The name " Benodet " comes from the Breton: Ben is head and Odet is the river on which the municipality is located. The community is therefore at the top (or at the mouth ) of the Odet.

Geography

The place is in the countryside Cornwall, 13 line kilometers south of the town of Quimper at the mouth of the broad and deep in the land of the Odet estuary incisive into the Atlantic. The estuary of the Odet is north of the town crossed by a high road bridge. The tourist -known places Concarneau and Pont l'Abbé - are only a few kilometers away.

Economy

The formerly dominant fishing has now lost its economically superior position; Today, tourism plays in Benodet the central role. Ever since the 1960s, when the city became the " beach of the Paris ", there is a casino, and from the fishing port became increasingly a yachting and marina ( port de plaisance ). Today in Benodet also exists a thalassotherapy center, there is a cinema, mainly in the summer months night bars and discos, many (fish ) restaurants and many tourist beds mainly in smaller private accommodation and holiday apartments. There are several campgrounds in the area. In the summer season, an passenger ferry Benodet with the tourist area of ​​Sainte-Marine, just across the river.