Fortified high city and port low city, Dinan has thousand history years.
The existence of a lord of Dinan is certified to leave from the Xe century:
an act relates that Josselin, brother of the évèque of Dol
was witness a donnation made to the abbey of Holy George by the Duchess
of Brittany. Dinan becomes then a real city, a convent Benedictine installs
there and, in the beginning of the XIIE century a defensive system outline
exists, as testifies some Idrish historiengéograph Arab: <<TO
Dinan holy wall city of stone.>>
To this period spaces it closed comprise numerous prairies to feed
the cattle and to provide to needs of the population in case of seat.
The family of Dinan directs not without difficulty the city until to
1283, date to which it becomes city ducal.
In the beginning of the XIIE century Dinan is prosperous: the trades
with the Brittany and the flandres fathers the abundance, merchants and
the affluent artisans and install their shp in lanes and under porches.
But the war of succession of Brittany goes to stop net this vigor.
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It celebrate its victory by constructing a dungeon.
During this disturbed period, English not
cease to pester the city, Dugesclin that
orders the resistance of Dinan combat
Thomas of Cantorbéry to the current site of
the place of the field - closed where one finds other
a statue of Duguesclin currently.
It leaves victorious this combat to predictions of
that that was going to become its woman, Thiphaine
Raguenelle.
In 1958, during the league Dinan renounces the Duke Mercoeur and rallies to Henri IV.
Whole to the long of the XIIE century, the religious install many hatch,
Dominicans, the ursulines, Benedictines and the capucins. They occupy again
free spaces of the city.
The XVIIIe century makes pass the religion to the second plan, the
city resounds to hum them the trades to weave whose cloths are exported
to Antille and the amérique of the
south, fairs develop and attract immense trample.
With the XIXe century Dinan sees to come the public lighting and the
railroad, the city animates, changes face, becomes
a city of holiday, new residential suburbs appear, whose the quarter
of hillocks, or live the officers, and the very important colony
britany.
Enclosed in its medieval belt, this city will be until to 1914 the
city of most aristocratic garrison and the most enjoy of France.
The viaduct inaugurated in 1952 nears Brest of Paris, facilitates the
acces to the city and diverts the trade of the port.
