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Mûr-de-Bretagne

Field	Value
name	Mûr-de-Bretagne
native name	Mur
image	Mûr-de-Bretagne - mairie.JPG
caption	The town hall of Mûr-de-Bretagne
image flag	Flag of Mûr-de-Bretagne.svg
image coat of arms	Blason Mûr-de-Bretagne.svg
coordinates
INSEE	22158
postal code	22530
arrondissement	Guingamp
canton	Guerlédan
commune	Guerlédan
elevation min m	69
elevation max m	290
area km2	29.80
population	2088
population date	2022
population footnotes

|image coat of arms = Blason Mûr-de-Bretagne.svg

Mûr-de-Bretagne (, literally Mûr of Brittany; ) is a town and former commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department, Brittany, northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, the former commune was merged into the new commune Guerlédan.

Geography

Mûr-de-Bretagne is a small town with shops, located east of the Lac de Guerlédan.

Toponymy

The old forms of the name are: Mur (1283), Mur (1368), Mur (1516), Mur (1536), Meur (1630).

The name of the commune translated into Breton is Mur.

History

Transportation

The town was previously served by a train station. The line on which it was on is now a cycleway

Politics and administration

Start	End	Name	Party	Other details
1809	1815	Guillaume Michel Fraboullet
...	...	Raymond Hinault
June 1995	2008	Alain Auffret	Independent	Farmer
March 2008	...	Georges Tilly	Independent	Retired, President of the CC
2014	In progress	Hervé Le Lu	Independent	Art director

Demographics

In 2017, the municipality had 2,026 inhabitants. This population accounts for the former commune.

|1793|1891 |1800|2096 |1806|1819 |1821|1951 |1831|2354 |1836|2283 |1841|2267 |1846|2413 |1851|2403 |1856|2333 |1861|2362 |1866|2534 |1872|2510 |1876|2508 |1881|2581 |1886|2528 |1891|2433 |1896|2489 |1901|2574 |1906|2436 |1911|2417 |1921|2254 |1926|2149 |1931|2233 |1936|2265 |1946|2409 |1954|2116 |1962|2125 |1968|2075 |1975|2105 |1982|2091 |1990|2049 |1999|2090 |2007|2089 |2012|2106 |2017|2026

The inhabitants of Mûr-de-Bretagne are known in French as mûrois.

Local culture and heritage

Places and monuments

The chapel Sainte-Suzanne is classified as an historical monument since 4 June 1952. It is surrounded by oak trees painted around 1840-1850 by Jean-Baptiste Corot.
Church of Saint-Pierre: indoors, altars and chairs carved by a local artist. On the pulpit, sculpted panels represent the seven deadly sins.
The , classified as an historical monument on 8 November 1956.
and Lake Guerlédan.

Sport

Mûr has featured in multiple editions of the Tour de France Mûr was the end of the fourth stage of the 2011 Tour de France; Cadel Evans won the stage in 2011 and went on to win the Tour. Mûr hosted the finish of the eighth stage of the 2015 Tour de France. Alexis Vuillermoz took the win. On 17 October 2017, it was announced it would be the finish line for the 6th stage of the 2018 Tour de France on 12 July 2018. Irish cyclist Dan Martin from took the stage. On 27 June 2021, Mathieu van der Poel of Team Alpecin-Fenix won the second stage of the Tour de France at Mûr. And on 11 July 2025, Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates-XRG won stage seven of the Tour de France at Mûr.

Year	Stage	Category	Start	Finish	Leader at the summit
2025	7 (2)	3	Saint-Malo	Mûr-de-Bretagne	Tadej Pogačar
2025	7 (1)	3	Saint-Malo	Mûr-de-Bretagne	Ewen Costiou
2021	2 (2)	3	Perros-Guirec	Mûr-de-Bretagne	Mathieu van der Poel
2021	2 (1)	3	Perros-Guirec	Mûr-de-Bretagne	Mathieu van der Poel
2018	6 (2)	3	Brest	Mûr-de-Bretagne	Daniel Martin
2018	6 (1)	3	Brest	Mûr-de-Bretagne	Toms Skujiņš
2015	8	3	Rennes	Mûr-de-Bretagne	Alexis Vuillermoz
2011	4	3	Lorient	Mûr-de-Bretagne	Cadel Evans
2008	2	3	Auray	Saint-Brieuc	Sylvain Chavanel
2006	8	3	Saint-Méen-le-Grand	Lorient	Sylvain Calzati
2004	8	3	Lamballe	Quimper	Ronny Scholz
1993	3	?	Vannes	Dinard	Laurent Desbiens
1977	9	3	Lorient	Rennes	Lucien Van Impe
1947	19		Vannes	Saint-Brieuc	Raymond Impanis
1938	3		Saint-Brieuc	Nantes

Heraldry

Of azure to a cross engrailed or, to a franc-canton gules, charged four macles of argent raised 2,2.

Bibliography

{{cite book|first=E.|last=Le Barzic|title=Mûr de Bretagne et sa région|language=fr|trans-title=Mur de Bretagne and its region|publisher=Nature et Bretagne|series=Guide officiel du syndicat d'initiative|location=Quimper|year=1946|id=480

References

(December 2024). "Populations de référence 2022". [[Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques.
[https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/arrete/2016/8/30/INTB1627400A/jo/texte Arrêté préfectoral] 30 August 2016 {{in lang. fr
"Résultats concernant " Mûr-de-Bretagne "". Office public de la langue bretonne.
[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/4265429/ensemble.pdf Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2017], [[Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE]]
{{Cassini-Ehess. 24411. Mûr-de-Bretagne
"Populations légales 2012".
{{Base Mérimée. PA00089349
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{{Base Mérimée. PA00089348
[https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4635169z/f4.item.zoom L'itinéraire détaillée de la 2e étape 1938 sur L'Auto, 6 juillet 1938.]

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