The Valley of the Saints promotes cultural and artistic exchanges by recruiting artists from all over the world to create the monumental sculptures (India, Syria, Asturias, British Cornwall, Portugal, etc.); by setting up sponsorship operations with Easter Island (Chile), Lebanon and India; and also by organising an event called “La Traversée des Géants” with the Celtic countries, British Cornwall, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Quebec, Asturias and Galicia.
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The Valley of the Saints and Easter Island
At present, the partnership with Easter Island is taking shape with the sculpture of a Moai planned for this year on the site. The project is part of the site’s history, linked to Paul-Antoine Fleuriot de Langle, the second-in-command of Lapérouse’s expedition (1785), who mapped Easter Island for the first time and owned the Saint-Gildas site at the time.
This Moaï sculpted in Breton granite will be installed at the entrance to the site in an area dedicated to Fleuriot de Langle.
La traversée des Géants and Saint-Piran
Saint Piran was the hundredth Celtic saint to be honoured at the Valley of the Saints. And to mark the occasion, the Valley of the Saints organised an event.
The statue of Saint Piran was cut from the rock of the Mabe quarry in Cornwall. It sailed into Falmouth Harbour on 11 May 2018 on La Nebuleuse, an old sailing ship. For the first Giants Crossing or Treizh ar Ramzed (“Crossing of the Giants”), Saint Piran, the patron saint of Kernow (Cornwall), approached the northern coast of Brittany at Paimpol, sailed up the River Trieux and took an old train. Finally, on an old-fashioned cart, Saint Piran reached the Valley of the Saints.
The crossing of the giants and Saint-Dewi
Saint Dewi’s journey on the second Traversée des Géants arrived at the Valley of the Saints site in Carnoët on the weekend of 10 August 2019. He set off from Wales and arrived in Port-Launay (Finistère).
