Pointe Saint-Mathieu

Flanked by 20 meters (66 ft) high cliffs, it was the sight of major Anglo-French naval battles in 1293 and in 1512.

He accorded this right to the monks for "all those who perish in the sea, and on the coasts at Saint Mathieu, Plougonvelin and le Conquet".

Today abandoned, the Abbaye Saint-Mathieu de Fine-Terre, was said to have held the skull of the apostle Matthew, now lost in the ocean off the point.

Commissioned by Émile Guépratte and Georges Leygues after the First World War, it was built following the law of 26 July 1923.

The stela (representing a sailor's wife) was designed by René Quillivic and inaugurated on 12 June 1927.