GR34 Sentier des douaniers / Customs Trail / Zöllner Pfad.

The GR 34 is our current project, so I will fill this collection as we walk the path. Created in 1791, the path was travelled by controls of customs officers – hence its name – in charge of preventing smuggling. To keep an eye on trafficking and on the pillaging of shipwrecks, they strode up and down the coastline, night and day, in all weather: think of this when your legs are tired! After falling into disuse in the early 20th century, the path experienced a revival in 1968, when a few passionate walkers decided to make it into a walking route. The famous white and red markers that signpost the route first appeared near Lannion: the GR® 34 was born! Today it goes all around the Brittany coastline, from Mont-Saint-Michel to the bridge of Saint-Nazaire.