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Twelve kilometres east of Port-Louis, a large bridge spans the broad estuary of the Etel river. A short detour north of the village of Belz on the eastern shore brings you to the delightful islet of ST-CADO , a speck on the water dotted with perhaps twenty white-painted houses. From the mainland, you walk across a spindly little bridge to reach the island itself. Its main feature is a twelfth-century chapel that stands on the site of a Romanesque predecessor built by St Cado around the sixth century. Cado, who was a prince of "Glamorgant", returned in due course to his native Wales and was martyred, but Welsh pilgrims still make their way to this pretty little spot. As Cado is a patron saint of the deaf, it's said that hearing problems can be cured by lying on his stone "bed" inside the chapel. A little fountain behind the chapel only emerges from the sea at low tide
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