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Coastal path
Definition
The coastal paths border the coasts, thus giving the access to the shore since the ground and conversely the access to the ground since the sea.
Description
Create by the hand of the man since unmemorable times, the coastal paths are very privileged means to practise accosting or the loading. In Brittany one counts of them hundreds which skirt the littoral on more than 1100 Kilometers. The smugglers borrowed them; they enabled them to recover all the products and illicit goods, subjected to rights and taxes which the French state should have taken by the way of the traditional trade. Here are approximately two centuries that the government officials, were sent on these coastal paths to try éradiquer this smuggling. Thus these places were little by little called paths coastguards. At the strategic places, draw up stone-built houses flanked of the two side staircases which carried out the customs officers on the roof, thus improving the monitoring of the coasts by the public authority. These paths owe also their fame with the intrigues of the inhabitants of these coasts to navigation, sometimes delicate, risky and dangerous. Indeed they misled the vigilance of the sailors and the course which they were to follow, while lighting of fires of bad indication which inevitably drove the boat to the coast. The shipwreck or the stranding was then probable. And the pirates of this time did not have any more but to recover the goods than the sea deposited to them on these shores. Nowadays, these paths, from the littoral law of 1981 are protected and often maintained by the academy of the littoral and the communes maritime. The excursions are the occasion to discover the charms of these places, where behind, the azaleas, the rhododendrons, the gorses hide splits and beaches wild and secret. You can, in clear weather to discover the many islands of the West, which are scattered on all the Breton coasts: the Glénans Islands, Ushant, Bréhat, Hédic, Houat, Molène, Groix and the island of Centre.
Author
Anwar Hossain
Author Email
anwtele@yahoo.com
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