Sailor's Shelter Sainte Marine

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Jacques de Thézac decided to offer fishermen healthy, heated, comfortably furnished premises, meeting and education rooms: the “Sailor’s Shelters”, inspired by British sailor’s homes. These are houses, located on the port, always painted pink, the Abris must have been model cabarets. From 1900 to 1933, eleven “Shelters of the sailor” were established in ports in Finistère and one in Morbihan. A few more were built subsequently. A total of fifteen shelters were built between 1900 and 1952. In 1888, Jacques de Thézac (1862-1936), a wealthy man with a passion for sailing, settled in Sainte-Marine, a charming little port in Finistère. It was while traveling the coasts that he discovered the harsh living conditions of fishermen, who often had no other choice than to take shelter in taverns during their stopovers. He decides to offer them better living conditions, while fighting alcoholism in particular..