Saint-Cast-le-Guildo

Saint-Cast-le-Guildo Sant-Kast-ar-Gwildoù
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of Saint-Cast-le-Guildo
Saint-Cast-le-Guildo Saint-Cast-le-Guildo
Coordinates: 48°37′48″N 2°15′24″W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Côtes-d'Armor
Arrondissement	Dinan
Canton	Pléneuf-Val-André
Intercommunality	Pays de Matignon
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Josiane Allory
Area 1	22.63 km2 (8.74 sq mi)
Population  (2008)	3,487
• Density	150/km2 (400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	22282 /22380
Elevation	0–76 m (0–249 ft)
Website	tourist office
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Cast-le-Guildo (Template:Lang-br, Gallo: Saent-Cast-le-Giledo) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France. It is port city on the English Channel as it also has a nautical center, the Centre Nautique de Saint- Cast (CNSC) ranked 3rd to 6th in the nation.

The classical pianist Irène Aïtoff (1904–2006) was born in Saint-Cast.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1793	1,232	—
1800	1,168	−5.2%
1806	1,384	+18.5%
1821	1,444	+4.3%
1831	1,481	+2.6%
1836	1,402	−5.3%
1841	1,421	+1.4%
1846	1,476	+3.9%
1851	1,558	+5.6%
1856	1,511	−3.0%
1861	1,400	−7.3%
1866	1,499	+7.1%
1872	1,380	−7.9%
1876	1,516	+9.9%
1881	1,592	+5.0%
1886	1,553	−2.4%
1891	1,626	+4.7%
1896	1,717	+5.6%
1901	1,717	+0.0%
1906	1,864	+8.6%
1911	2,076	+11.4%
1921	2,013	−3.0%
1926	2,166	+7.6%
1931	2,263	+4.5%
1936	2,201	−2.7%
1946	2,330	+5.9%
1954	2,159	−7.3%
1962	2,179	+0.9%
1968	2,227	+2.2%
1975	3,105	+39.4%
1982	3,165	+1.9%
1990	3,093	−2.3%
1999	3,187	+3.0%
2008	3,487	+9.4%

Inhabitants of Saint-Cast-le-Guildo are called castins in French.

History

The Battle of St Cast took place on September 11, 1758, where the French repelled the English. First of all, the English first attacked the region of Dinard by sea, but were stopped at the Rance by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban fortifications. They were forced to retreat to their fleet in front of St-Cast, where Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu was waiting for them and launched an attack on the beach while the British were fleeing back onto their vessels. The casualties were big with the British army as they lost 1,160 soldiers when the French lost about 445 men Today there is a monument in the Bourg (neighborhood of St-Cast) showing a greyhound defeating a lion; the Castins defeating a lion (the English symbol).

Food

Saint-Cast has a lot of typical food from Brittany like the Kouign-amann, or the specialty from St-Cast, le Castin, which is originally how we call people from there or in that case, the cake.

See also

• Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department
• https://sites.google.com/site/alderneylocalhistory/Home/1700s/1758-battle-of-st-cast

External links

• Tourist office website Template:Fr icon
• Official city website
• French Ministry of Culture list for Saint-Cast-le-Guildo Template:Fr icon