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Les Forges des Salles

Les Forges des Salles

Forges des Salles Fuel Storage
Barn
Forges des Salles Chapel
Chapel
Forges des Salles Museum
Forges des Salles Water Mill
Forges des Salles Museum
Forges des Salles
Forges des Salles Cottage Living Room
Forges des Salles Workers Cottages
Forges des Salles Mill Water Course
Forges des Salles
Forges des Salles rails into the mill
Forges des Salles Workers Cottages
Forges des Salles Inside the Mill
Forges des Salles Inside The Mill Block
Forges des Salles Inside The Mill Block
Forges des Salles Canteen
Forges des Salles Ruisseau des Forges
Forges des Salles Office
Forges des Salles Chapel
Forges des Salles
Forges des Salles Forge Yard
Forges des Salles Forges

About Les Forges des Salles

The steel-manufacturing village of “Les Forges des Salles” is the finest example of industrial heritage in the Côtes d’Armor department, and of everyday life in a forge village during the 18th and 19th centuries, completely focused on the blast furnace. Situated in the Quénécan forest, this site was once one of the largest wood-fired forges in Brittany. Since 1990, it has been possible to visit this exceptionally well preserved former steel-manufacturing village, alone or with a guide: here, nothing has changed since production came to a halt in 1877. The visit takes you to the very heart of the industrial installations (the coal stores, the 12m high cast iron blast furnace), from the “bosses’ house” to the workers’ and foreman’s dwellings, the canteen, the grocer’s shop, the mixed-sex school (unusual for the times), the stables, the chapel, the terraced gardens etc.

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