Malestroit

Malestroit

Malastred
Malestroit Malastred
Commune
	Bouffay Square in Malestroit
	Coat of arms
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	Coordinates: 47°48′38″N 2°22′56″W / 47.8106°N 2.3822°WCoordinates: 47°48′38″N 2°22′56″W / 47.8106°N 2.3822°W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Morbihan
Arrondissement	Vannes
Canton	Moréac
Intercommunality	CC de l'Oust à Brocéliande
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Bruno Gicquello
Area 1	5.81 km2 (2.24 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)	2,460
• Density	420/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	56124 /56140
Elevation	10–95 m (33–312 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Malestroit (French pronunciation: [maletʁwa]; Breton: Malastred) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France. The town is on the river Oust and part of the Nantes-Brest canal. It has several half-timbered houses.^[3]

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Malestroit, whose inhabitants are known in French as Malestroyens, are twinned with the town of Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders.^[4]

Tourism[]

Malestroit was on the Nantes-Brest canal although this is no longer completely navigable. However the section through the town in over 200 km long and barges moor up near the centre of Malestroit. It is possible to hire a boat to explore the waterway. The nearby village of St. Marcel houses a museum dedicated to the Breton Resistance movement. This is the place where a battle against the Nazis took place which was won by the Resistance fighters.^[5]