Lorient to Quimper

Stage 5 - Wednesday, 11 July - 203 km (126 mi)

< Stage 4 - Home - Stage 6 >

The Stage

Five nice little cols; you can be sure there will be a breakaway with riders hoping to gain the polka dot jersey and keep it till the real mountains show up. The wind might play a part again. Chances for the breakaway to stay in front till the finish are high.

Winner: Peter Sagan

Tour Touristique

Pont-Aven, known for its watermills (the Tour site mentions windmills, which has to be incorrect), the small town was “discovered’ in 1864 by American painter Henry Bacon, who loved it immediately because it was picturesque and cheap. He invited many American and British colleagues to visit him there. The “city of painters” was born. Jean-Léon Gérôme, a teacher at the Beaux-Arts school in Paris, also advised his pupils to get there: the small contingent of painters who settled in town quickly reached 50. A second wave of artists came to Pont-Aven in the 1880s, including Paul Gauguin, who stayed at the Gloanec guesthouse. Al those painters, led by Armand Jobbé-Duval and Paul Sérusier formed the so-called Pont-Aven School.

View attached image.

View attached image.

View attached image.

View attached image.

View attached image.

View attached image.