Quimper
Quimper is the capital city of the Finistère department. Its specialty is Quimper faience, a type of white glazed pottery with colourful painted designs and patterns.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 63,600 residents
- Description: commune in Finistère, France
- Also known as: “Montagne-sur-Odet”
- Postal codes: 29000 and 29000
Places of Interest
Highlights include Quimper Cathedral and Quimper station.
Quimper Cathedral
Church
Photo: Kergourlay, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Quimper Cathedral, formally the Cathedral of Saint Corentin, is a Roman Catholic cathedral and national monument of Brittany in France. It is located in the town of Quimper and is the seat of the Diocese of Quimper and Léon.
Quimper station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Quimper is a railway station in Quimper, Brittany, France. The station was opened on 8 September 1863, and it is located on the Savenay–Landerneau railway. Today, the station is served by TGV, Intercités and TER services operated by the SNCF.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper
Museum
Photo: El Funcionario, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper is an art museum located in Quimper, Brittany, France. It was founded after Jean-Marie de Silguy left a legacy of 1200 paintings and 2000 drawings to the town of Quimper on condition that the town build a museum to accommodate them.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Locmaria, Quimper.
Quimper
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Quimper, Finistère, Brittany, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.996° or 47° 59′ 46″ northLongitude
-4.1025° or 4° 6′ 9″ westPopulation
63,600Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)Name during the French Revolution
“Montagne-sur-Odet”IATA airport code
UIPUnited Nations Location Code
FR UIPOpen location code
8CVQXVWX+C2OpenStreetMap ID
node 26691583OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Quimper” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Quimper”
- Albanian: “Quimper”
- Arabic: “كامبار”
- Aragonese: “Kemper”
- Aragonese: “Quimper”
- Armenian: “Կեմպեր”
- Armenian: “Քեմպեր”
- Arpitan: “Quimper”
- Asturian: “Quimper”
- Azerbaijani: “Kemper”
- Bambara: “Quimper”
- Basque: “Quimper”
- Bavarian: “Quimper”
- Belarusian: “Кемпер”
- Bengali: “কাঁপের”
- Breton: “Kemper”
- Buginese: “Quimper, Finistère”
- Buginese: “Quimper”
- Bulgarian: “Кемпер”
- Cajun French: “Quimper”
- Catalan: “Kemper”
- Catalan: “Quimper”
- Cebuano: “Quimper”
- Central Kurdish: “کەمپێر”
- Chechen: “КемпегӀ”
- Chinese: “Quimper”
- Chinese: “坎佩尔”
- Chinese: “坎佩爾”
- Chinese: “金貝”
- Chuvash: “Кемпер”
- Cornish: “Kemper”
- Corsican: “Quimper”
- Croatian: “Quimper”
- Czech: “Quimper”
- Dagbani: “Quimper”
- Danish: “Quimper”
- Dutch: “Quimper”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كامبار”
- Esperanto: “Quimper”
- Estonian: “Quimper”
- Faroese: “Quimper”
- Finnish: “Quimper”
- French: “Montagne-sur-Odet”
- French: “Quimper”
- Friulian: “Quimper”
- Galician: “Quimper”
- Georgian: “კემპერი”
- German: “Quimper”
- Greek: “Καμπέρ”
- Hebrew: “קווימפר”
- Hebrew: “קמפר”
- Hungarian: “Quimper”
- Icelandic: “Quimper”
- Ido: “Quimper”
- Indonesian: “Quimper”
- Interlingua: “Quimper”
- Interlingue: “Quimper”
- Irish: “Kemper”
- Irish: “Quimper”
- Italian: “Quimper”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Quimper”
- Japanese: “カンペール”
- Kabyle: “Quimper”
- Kalaallisut: “Quimper”
- Kongo: “Quimper”
- Korean: “캥페르”
- Kurdish: “Quimper”
- Ladin: “Quimper”
- Latin: “Coriosopitum”
- Latvian: “Kempēra”
- Ligurian: “Quimper”
- Limburgan: “Quimper”
- Lithuanian: “Kemperas”
- Lithuanian: “Kempēras”
- Lithuanian: “Quimper”
- Low German: “Quimper”
- Luxembourgish: “Quimper”
- Macedonian: “Кемпер”
- Mainfränkisch: “Quimper”
- Malagasy: “Quimper”
- Malay: “Quimper, Finistère”
- Malay: “Quimper”
- Manx: “Kemper”
- Mazanderani: “کویمپر”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Quimper”
- Minangkabau: “Quimper”
- Narom: “Tchîmpèr”
- Neapolitan: “Quimper”
- Nepali: “क्विम्पर”
- Northern Frisian: “Quimper”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Quimper”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Quimper”
- Norwegian: “Quimper”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kemper”
- Ossetian: “Кемпер”
- Papiamento: “Quimper”
- Persian: “کمپر”
- Persian: “کویمپر”
- Picard: “Quimper”
- Piemontese: “Quimper”
- Polish: “Quimper”
- Portuguese: “Quimper”
- Prussian: “Quimper”
- Romagnol: “Quimper”
- Romanian: “Quimper, Finistère”
- Romanian: “Quimper”
- Romansh: “Quimper”
- Russian: “Кемпер”
- Sardinian: “Quimper”
- Scots: “Quimper”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Kemper”
- Serbian: “Quimper”
- Serbian: “Кемпер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Quimper”
- Sicilian: “Quimper”
- Slovak: “Quimper”
- Slovenian: “Quimper”
- South Azerbaijani: “کمپر”
- Spanish: “Quimper”
- Swahili: “Quimper”
- Swedish: “Quimper”
- Swiss German: “Quimper”
- Tamil: “குவிம்பர்”
- Tatar: “Кемпер”
- Tosk Albanian: “Quimper”
- Turkish: “Quimper”
- Ukrainian: “Кемпер”
- Urdu: “کیمپیغ”
- Uzbek: “Quimper”
- Venetian: “Quimper”
- Vietnamese: “Quimper”
- Vlaams: “Quimper”
- Volapük: “Quimper”
- Walloon: “Quimper”
- Waray (Philippines): “Quimper”
- Welsh: “Kemper”
- Wolof: “Quimper”
- Wu Chinese: “坎佩尔”
- Yue Chinese: “金貝”
- Zulu: “Quimper”
- “Kemper”
- “Quimper”
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