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An exceptional place.
"This landscape has been familiar to me for 47 years and in all kinds of weather, in storms, in thunderstorms, in fact in all the weather you can see from 30 metres up, and at all hours of the night and day. When there was snow, it was magical to see all of Port-Louis and Gâvres covered in snow. I would sometimes spend an hour on the stairs despite the intense cold just to enjoy the snowy landscape..."
Throughout her life, Honorine Le Guen, France's first female lighthouse keeper, looked after the Kerbel Lighthouse daily to guide sailors entering Lorient harbour. Today, although improvements in navigation systems have made it obsolete, the Kerbel Lighthouse, always a pioneer, has been transformed into the only lighthouse in France habitable at the top, offering each of us the possibility of following in Honorine's footsteps...
THE LIGHTHOUSE
The keeper's house
The keeper's house bears its name because it was the home of its keeper from 1913, the date of the Kerbel lighthouse's inauguration, to 1989, the date its lens was extinguished. It has now been completely refurbished to offer you optimum comfort while retaining the spirit of its original occupants...
The studio on top of the lighthouse
The Kerbel lighthouse is the only lighthouse in France that is habitable at the top. An architectural feat has enabled a studio to replace the lantern that once guided sailors at a height of 25 metres, offering a 360° panorama stretching almost to infinity.
The Oil Room
Formerly used for storage, it housed the oil powering the lantern of the Kerbel lighthouse, before its electrification in 1932. Today, transformed into an outbuilding, it is no longer oil that you will come to look for, but rather the comfort of a peaceful night at the foot of the lighthouse.
SWIMMING POOL
SAUNA
GARDEN
The outdoor space...
The garden of the Kerbel Lighthouse covers more than 1,000m2 and allows you to take advantage of the slightest ray of sunshine: breakfast on the garden furniture, devour a novel on a deckchair by the pool... And if the sun is playing hide and seek, go and warm up in the sauna!
"She said yes!"
C&B. 20/11/2019
"No two minutes
are alike and each one of them is sumptuous".
E&M. 19/01/2020
"A magical evening,
thanks to the storm Chiara".
M&T. 11/02/2020
"A moment out of time,
this wonderful surprise offered by my lover! A dream come true".
A&B. 13/04/2019
WHEN TO COME?
The tidal calendar :
If you wish to choose your tidal coeficient to personalise your experience, click on the image!
The sunset calendar :
Sunset and sunrise over the sea horizon are the two highlights of your stay, to find out the times, click on the photo!