Paimpont
Paimpont is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. The name is a compound of Old Breton pen "head" and the Latin borrowing pont "bridge" and is first attested in the 9th century in the Latinised form Caput Pontis and then in 870 CE as Penpont.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Notre-Dame (Paimpont) and Paimpont forest.
Chapelle Saint-Éloi des Forges
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brocéliande and Forges de Paimpont.
Forges de Paimpont
Hamlet
Plélan-le-Grand
Village
Paimpont
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Latitude
48.01936° or 48° 1′ 10″ north
Longitude
-2.17353° or 2° 10′ 25″ west
Open location code
8CWV2R9G+PH
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OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Paimpont” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Paimpont”
- Aragonese: “Paimpont”
- Aragonese: “Pempont”
- Arpitan: “Paimpont”
- Asturian: “Paimpont”
- Bambara: “Paimpont”
- Basque: “Paimpont”
- Bavarian: “Paimpont”
- Breton: “Pempont”
- Cajun French: “Paimpont”
- Catalan: “Paimpont”
- Cebuano: “Paimpont”
- Chechen: “Пемпон”
- Chinese: “潘蓬”
- Corsican: “Paimpont”
- Croatian: “Paimpont”
- Czech: “Paimpont”
- Danish: “Paimpont”
- Dutch: “Paimpont”
- Esperanto: “Paimpont”
- Estonian: “Paimpont”
- Faroese: “Paimpont”
- Finnish: “Paimpont”
- French: “Paimpont”
- Friulian: “Paimpont”
- Galician: “Paimpont”
- Galician: “Pemport”
- Galician: “Penpont”
- German: “Paimpont”
- German: “Wald von Paimpont”
- Greek: “Παιμπόν”
- Hungarian: “Paimpont”
- Icelandic: “Paimpont”
- Ido: “Paimpont”
- Indonesian: “Paimpont”
- Interlingua: “Paimpont”
- Interlingue: “Paimpont”
- Irish: “Paimpont”
- Italian: “Paimpont”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Paimpont”
- Jèrriais: “Paimpont”
- Kabyle: “Paimpont”
- Kalaallisut: “Paimpont”
- Kazakh: “Пемпон”
- Kölsch: “Paimpont”
- Kongo: “Paimpont”
- Kurdish: “Paimpont”
- Ladin: “Paimpont”
- Latin: “Paimpont”
- Latin: “Panis Pontis”
- Latvian: “Paimpont”
- Ligurian: “Paimpont”
- Limburgan: “Paimpont”
- Lithuanian: “Paimpont”
- Low German: “Paimpont”
- Luxembourgish: “Paimpont”
- Mainfränkisch: “Paimpont”
- Malagasy: “Paimpont”
- Malay: “Paimpont”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Paimpont”
- Minangkabau: “Paimpont”
- Neapolitan: “Paimpont”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Paimpont”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Paimpont”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Paimpont”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pempont”
- Papiamento: “Paimpont”
- Picard: “Paimpont”
- Piemontese: “Paimpont”
- Polish: “Paimpont”
- Portuguese: “Paimpont”
- Prussian: “Paimpont”
- Romagnol: “Paimpont”
- Romanian: “Paimpont”
- Romansh: “Paimpont”
- Russian: “Пемпон”
- Sardinian: “Paimpont”
- Scots: “Paimpont”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Paimpont”
- Serbian: “Paimpont”
- Sicilian: “Paimpont”
- Slovak: “Paimpont”
- Spanish: “Paimpont”
- Swahili: “Paimpont”
- Swedish: “Paimpont”
- Swiss German: “Paimpont”
- Tatar: “Пемпон”
- Turkish: “Paimpont”
- Ukrainian: “Пемпон”
- Uzbek: “Paimpont”
- Venetian: “Paimpont”
- Vietnamese: “Paimpont”
- Vlaams: “Paimpont”
- Volapük: “Paimpont”
- Walloon: “Paimpont”
- Waray (Philippines): “Paimpont”
- Welsh: “Paimpont”
- Welsh: “Pempont”
- Wolof: “Paimpont”
- Yue Chinese: “Paimpont”
- Zulu: “Paimpont”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Le P’tit Marché de Paimpont and Bibliothèque municipale.
Ille-et-Vilaine: Highlights
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