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Guingamp

Guingamp
FieldValue
nameGuingamp
native name
commune statusSubprefecture and commune
imageGuingamp (22) Hôtel de Ville 08.JPG
captionGuingamp's Town Hall
coordinates
INSEE22070
postal code22200
arrondissementGuingamp
cantonGuingamp
mayorPhilippe Le Goff
term2020–2026
intercommunalityGuingamp-Paimpol Agglomération
elevation min m62
elevation max m126
area km23.41
population
population date
population footnotes
image coat of armsCoA br Gwengamp.svg
population_demonymGuingampais (masculine)
Guingampaise (feminine)
image flagFlag of Guingamp.svg

|image coat of arms = CoA br Gwengamp.svg Guingampaise (feminine)

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 a top-tier professional football team: En Avant Guingamp, which played in Ligue 1 from 2013 until 2019. 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 has 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.

Urbanism

Guingamp is an urban commune part of the urban unit of Guingamp with 5 others cities of the department representing 22,049 inhabitants.

The commune is also part of the Guingamp functional area. This area, which includes 15 communes, is categorized as an area of less than 50,000 inhabitants in 2020.

Population

|1793 |5177 |1800 |5190 |1806 |4973 |1821 |5550 |1831 |6100 |1836 |6466 |1841 |6796 |1846 |6949 |1851 |6718 |1856 |6893 |1861 |7350 |1866 |6977 |1872 |7045 |1876 |7895 |1881 |8404 |1886 |8744 |1891 |9196 |1896 |9272 |1901 |9252 |1906 |9212 |1911 |9385 |1921 |7923 |1926 |8575 |1931 |8644 |1936 |8663 |1946 |9080 |1954 |8117 |1962 |8912 |1968 |9232 |1975 |9284 |1982 |8507 |1990 |7905 |1999 |8008 |2009 |7378 |2014 |7003 |2020 |7115

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 it was still part of 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 inhabitants).

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:

  • IRL Shannon, Ireland, since 1991
  • GER Aue, Germany, since 2011
  • ITA Urbino, Italy
A view from one of Trieux's bridges

References

References

  1. (13 September 2022). "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises.
  2. "Dossier complet − Unité urbaine 2020 de Guingamp (22401) {{!}} Insee".
  3. "Base des aires d'attraction des villes 2020 {{!}} Insee".
  4. {{Cassini-Ehess. 16456. Guingamp
  5. [https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/7633058?geo=COM-22070#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE
  6. {{in lang
  7. {{cite EB1911
  8. "20 ans de souvenirs".
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