Penmarc'h, lighthouse of Eckmühl

With its opaline walls, it is certainly one of the most beautiful jewels of Finistère. Culminating at 64 meters, the Eckmühl lighthouse in Kersanton stone pierces the Finistère sky and offers a breathtaking view of the entire Bay of Audierne. Located at the tip of Penmarc'h and dated 1897, the construction of the lighthouse was made possible thanks to the gift of the Marquise de Blocqueville, daughter of the Marshal of the Empire Davout, named Prince of Eckmühl following the victory of a Napoleonic battle. The marquise wanted this name of sad memory to be redeemed by the lives saved thanks to a lighthouse. “The tears shed by the fatality of wars, which I dread and detest more than ever, will thus be redeemed by the lives saved from the storm,” she wrote in her will.