Ille-et-Vilaine
Arrondissement of Rennes
Paimpont

Paimpont

Paimpont is a commune in the department in in northwestern . 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.
Tap on a place
to explore it
paimpont.bzh
Wikipedia
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Village with 1,780 residents
  • Description: commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, France
  • Postal codes: 35380 and 35380
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Notre-Dame (Paimpont) and Paimpont forest.

Church
Photo: GO69, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Forest
Photo: Suzelfe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known as Brocéliande Forest, is a temperate forest located around the village of Paimpont in the department of in Brittany, France.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a church, which is situated 3½ km southeast of Paimpont.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brocéliande and Forges de Paimpont.

Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The forest of , or forest of Paimpont is located 40 km to the west of , in Ille-et-Vilaine in . It is part of the district of .

Hamlet
Photo: Raphodon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a hamlet, which is situated 3½ km southeast of Paimpont.

Village
Photo: EdouardHue, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a commune in the department of in northwestern . is situated 6 km east of Paimpont.

Paimpont

Latitude
48.01936° or 48° 1′ 10″ north
Longitude
-2.17353° or 2° 10′ 25″ west
Population
1,780
Elevation
158 metres (518 feet)
Open location code
8CWV2R9G+PH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 297738120
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2988794
Wiki­data ID
Q152741
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Paimpont from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Paimpont” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Paimpont”
  • Aragonese: “Paimpont”
  • Arpitan: “Paimpont”
  • Asturian: “Paimpont”
  • Bambara: “Paimpont”
  • Basque: “Paimpont”
  • Bavarian: “Paimpont”
  • Breton: “Pempont”
  • Cajun French: “Paimpont”
  • Catalan: “Paimpont”
  • Cebuano: “Paimpont”
  • Chechen: “Пемпон”
  • Chinese: “Paimpont”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Narom: “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”
  • 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”
  • “Paimpont”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Landes des Carrées and La Volée.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Le P’tit Marché de Paimpont and Bibliothèque municipale.

Brittany: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Rennes, Brest, Finistère, and Morbihan.

Curious Places to Discover

Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.
About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Paimpont”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.