Brest (Municipality, Finistère, France)

Last modified: 2005-04-09 by ivan sache
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by Ivan Sache

• Presentation of Brest
• Municipal flag of Brest
• Historical flags of Brest
• Pennant of La Belle Cordelière
• Flag of Stade Brestois (football club)
• Burgee of Club de Voile de l'Ecole Navale - Ailée (yacht club)

See also:

• France
• Finistère (Department, France)
• Yacht Club of the Navy - Brest

Presentation of Brest

Brest is a city of c. 200,000 inhabitants (including seven neighbouring municipalities included in the communauté urbaine of Brest).
Due to its location on the northern shore of the rade de Brest (Brest harbour), which is in fact a deep inland sea (150 sq. km) linked to Atlantic Ocean only by a narrow bottleneck (goulet de Brest), Brest has been and still is a very important military port.

The fortress of Brest was mentioned for the first time in the XIth century. In 1395, King of France Charles VI managed to make the King of England return Brest to the (then indep