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![[Flag of Perros-Guirec]](../images/f/fr-22-pg.gif)
Flag of Perros-Guirec - Image by Olivier Touzeau , 12 November 2021
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The municipality of Perros-Guirec (7,149 inhabitants; 1,416 ha) is a sea resort located on
the northern coast of Brittany.
The name of the city comes from pen ros, in Breton the head
of the hill, and Guirec, a monk who landed here in the VIth century.
Perros-Guirec is located on the Côte de Granite Rose
(Coast of Pink Granite), famous for its heaps of pink rocks. A scenic
Sentier des Douaniers (Customers' Path) links Perros-Guirec to
the small port of Ploumanac'h.
The Polish novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) spent a few
years in the castle of Costaëres, built on an islet a few
fathoms off Ploumanac'h.
Ivan Sache, 18 January 2002
The the coat of arms is blazoned: Quarterly Or and Azure, a chief azure three escallops Or too.
The current logo was adopterd in september 2019 (source).
The main elements of the former logo were conserved : the puffin (the largest colony in France nests in the Sept-Îles, an archipelago which is part of the commmune of Perros-Guirec), and blue and pink colors.
According to the mayor, Erven Léon, “The puffin has always been the symbol
of the city. It is also the symbol of Perros’s exceptional environment, both
through the reserve of the 7 islands and the site of Ploumanac’h.”
The puffin has been modernized, more stylized. The colours are blue, a
reference to the sea and pink, for the pink granite rocks.
Olivier Touzau , 12 November 2021
A white flag with logo is in use since the adoption of the new logo in 2019 (photo, 2020).
Olivier Touzeau , 12 November 2021
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![[Flag]](../images/f/fr-22-pg1.gif)
Former flags of Perros-Guirec: left, with coat of arms - Image by Arnaud Leroy, 11 January 2002 ; right, with logo - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 12 November 2021
As communicated by the municipal administration, the flag of Perros-Guirec is white with the municipal coat of arms in the middle.
Arnaud Leroy & Pascal Vagnat, 11 January 2002
The white flag with coat of arms in use was still spotted until 2016 (photo, 2013; photo, 2015; photo, 2016). In 2018, it had been replaced by a white flag with logo (photo, 2018). This (now former) logo dated back to 1984.
Olivier Touzeau , 12 November 2021
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Burgee of SRP - Image by Ivan Sache, 13 May 2001
The burgee of Sociéte des Regates de Perros-Guirec (SRP), as shown on the SRP website, is blue with a thin white horizontal stripe in the middle and another white stripe placed in diagonal, rising from lower hoist.
Ivan Sache, 13 May 2001