Aulne
The Aulne is a 144 km long river of Brittany in north-western France, flowing down the hills and emptying into the roadstead of Brest, one of the many fjord-like bays just south of Brest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river of Brittany in north-western France
- Also known as: “L’Aulne Rivière” and “Rivière de Châteaulin”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Île de Térénez and Landévennec Abbey.
Île de Térénez
Islet
Photo: Berrucomons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Île de Térénez is a French islet inside the last bend of the river Aulne, on the territory of the commune of Rosnoën. Its highest point is 18m. Covered in woods, it is accessible by dry land at low tide and faces the Landévennec ship graveyard and Landévennec Abbey.
Landévennec Abbey
Bookstore
Photo: Moreau.henri, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Landévennec Abbey is a Benedictine monastery at Landévennec in Brittany, in the department of Finistère, France. The present monastery is a modern foundation at the site of an early mediaeval monastery, of which only ruins survive.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Le Faou.
Le Faou
Village
Photo: Tybo2, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Le Faou is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. Le Faou is situated 6 km east of Aulne.
Aulne
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Aulne” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Aulne”
- Breton: “Stêr Aon”
- Bulgarian: “Аулне”
- Catalan: “Aulne”
- Cebuano: “Aulne”
- Chinese: “欧讷河”
- Czech: “Aon”
- Czech: “Aulne”
- Dutch: “Aulne (rivier)”
- Dutch: “Aulne”
- Esperanto: “Aulne”
- Finnish: “Aulne”
- French: “Aulne”
- Galician: “río Aulne”
- German: “Aulne”
- Greek: “Ωλν”
- Indonesian: “Aulne”
- Irish: “Aulne”
- Italian: “Aulne”
- Latin: “Alaunus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aulne”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aulne”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Aulne”
- Polish: “Aulne”
- Portuguese: “Aulne”
- Russian: “Он”
- Serbian: “Он”
- Spanish: “Aulne”
- Ukrainian: “Алаун”
- Ukrainian: “Он (річка)”
- Ukrainian: “Он”
- Venetian: “Fiume Aulne”
- Welsh: “Afon Aon”
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Localities in the Area
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