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Article: Brittany's broad canvas.(TRAVEL)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2004
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Byline: Corinna Lothar, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
PONT AVEN, Brittany - From the fairy forest of Broceliande, where King Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot made their home when they were not across the Channel in Britain, to the mysterious megaliths built 70 centuries ago, Brittany is a province of France filled with romance, legend, art and history.
The connection between the two Britains is ancient. About 500 B.C., when the Celtic Gauls arrived in what today is Brittany, they named the peninsula Armor (land of the sea). The interior was Argoat, the wooded country.
The Romans arrived in the first century A.D. and remained for 400 years. ...