Brandivy

Brandivy Brandevi
The Manor of Kergal
Brandivy
Location within Brittany region Brandivy
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Morbihan
Arrondissement	Vannes
Canton	Grand-Champ
Intercommunality	Loc'h
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Denise Kervadec
Area1	25.88 km2 (9.99 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	1,157
• Density	45/km2 (120/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	56022 / 56390
Elevation	28–171 m (92–561 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Brandivy (Brandevi in Breton) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in northwestern France.

Population

Inhabitants of Brandivy are called in French Brandivyens.

Breizh-Kernow Festival

Brandivy is notable for its "Breizh - Kernow Festival" (Breizh = Brittany in Breton; Kernow = Cornwall, United Kingdom, in the Cornish language) which takes place at Easter. The Festival started in 1987 taking place most years until 2002 when the festival started to alternate with the "AberFest" festival in Cornwall. The Breizh - Kernow Festival now occurs on odd numbered years (2003, 2005, 2007) and AberFest on even numbered years (2004, 2006 and due at Easter 2008). In recent years, Brandivy has shared festival events with Bignan.

Both festivals celebrate the ancient Celtic cultural, musical, linguistic and other ancient links between Cornwall and Brittany. An exceptional aspect of the festival is that it is centred on families. Families in each country hosting guest families from the other country, recipricating the following year. This has developed to create very close, international family links between participants in Cornwall and Brittany which now spread over more than 20 years.

See also

• Communes of the Morbihan department

References

• INSEE statistics
• Mayors of Morbihan Association (French)

External links

• French Ministry of Culture list for Brandivy (French)
• Map of Brandivy on Michelin (English)