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Flag of Dol-de-Bretagne - Image by Ivan Sache, 26 June 2001
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The municipality of Dol-de-Bretagne (5,019 inhabitants) is located between
Saint-Malo and the
Mont-Saint-Michel. Dol was the capital
of the traditional Breton province of
Pays de Dol.
Dol is situated on a cliff of ca. 20 m high, which had been
beaten by the sea until the Xth century. Its name may come from the
pre-Latin word tull, "elevated place". The city now
"dominates" the cultivated area known as the Dol marsh.
Dol was an important religious center of Britanny, being a
Bishopric and the place of one of the seven Breton cathedrals. Every
Breton had to do the pilgrimage of the seven cathedrals (St. Brieuc
in St. Brieuc, St. Malo in St. Malo, St. Samson in Dol, St. Patern in
Vannes, St. Corentin in Quimper, St. Pol-Aurélien in St.
Pol-de-Léon, and St. Tugdual in Tréguier), known as the
Tro-Breizh. The one who refused to accomplish the pilgrimage
during his life was sentenced to finish it after his death, by moving
forward the length of his coffin every seven years.
Dol has kept around its cathedral several ancient houses and narrow
streets.
The Mont-Dol, a granitic hillock dominating the marsh from 65 m and located 2 km north of Dol, is the place of several legends describing the fight between Archangel Michael and Satan. Satan is said to have been buried under the hillock, and the foot print left by the Archangel when he jumped from the hillock to the Mont-Saint-Michael can still be seen in a rock.
Ivan Sache, 26 June 2001
The flag of Dol-de-Bretagne is hoisted at the entrance of the city and in front of the city hall. The flag is quartered yellow-blue by a black cross voided througout. The canton is charged with three blue diamonds (2 + 1), each of them including a black ermine spot enclosed in a white rectangle. The canton charge is based on the municipal arms, dating at least from 1696.
Source: P. Rault. Les drapeaux bretons de 1188 à nos jours. [rau98]
Ivan Sache, 26 June 2001