Les carrières de granit de l'Ile Grande

The success of Ile-Grande granite stems primarily from its undeniable practicality: because of its island location, granite reserves are easy to reach and immediately available. What's more, as most of the islets on Ile-Grande are uninhabited, there are no constraints on extraction. Finally, the granite of Ile-Grande is of the highest quality and most diverse. From a regional point of view, it was here that quarrying was most active from the second half of the 19th century to the beginning...