Ille-et-Vilaine: what to see and do
48 sites listed in the département. Around Rennes, the lively Breton capital, the Ille-et-Vilaine combines the medieval heritage of Vitré and Fougères with the Emerald Coast and its famous beaches, such as Saint-Malo, a walled corsair city. This variety of land and sea embodies the wealth of inland Brittany.
Grand Aquarium de Saint-Malo
The Grand Aquarium of Saint-Malo offers not only a real world tour of the planet's oceans and their species, but also lets you step into a Jules Verne novel.
Dinard
A chic seaside resort facing Saint-Malo, favoured from the nineteenth century by an Anglo-American clientele who had sumptuous Belle Époque villas built there.
Les Rochers du Saut de Roland
The Saut de Roland is a wooded rocky site in the commune of Dompierre-du-Chemin, in Ille-et-Vilaine, above the Cantache stream.
Rennes
Capital of Brittany at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine, whose historic centre has kept hundreds of colourful half-timbered houses.
Cathédraloscope
Château de Beauvais (Gévezé)
Château de Blossac
Château de Bonne Fontaine
A large lodging restored in 1547. The south tower, called the "Tour de Porçon", was built by Duchess Anne's chamberlain.
Château de Boutavent
Château de Châteaugiron
Of the old medieval fortress, renovated between 1450 and 1470 by Jean de Derval, important remains survive.
Château de Combourg
The foundation of the château de Combourg, which in its present state dates from the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, goes back to the year 1016.
Château de Fougères
Fortified from the eleventh century, the castle was originally built on a rocky promontory emerging from a marsh.
Château de Hédé
Château de La Ballue
Château de Landal
The château de Landal, in one of the most picturesque sites of the département, has existed since the twelfth century.
Château de Montmarin
Château de Montmuran
Founded by the lords of Tinténiac, probably in the eleventh century, and rebuilt in the fourteenth century, the château de Montmuran, which enjoys a magnificent perspective over the surrounding countryside, stands at the end of an avenue of honour.
Château de Saint-Malo
Château de Vitré
This castle is one of the most beautiful fortresses of Brittany. Fortified from the early eleventh century, it was besieged and taken in the twelfth century.
Château de la Bourbansais
Château de la Motte-Jean
Château des Rochers-Sévigné
Château du Bois-Cornillé
Château du Boschet
Château du Nessay
Châteaugiron
Cobac Parc
Domaine de La Bourbansais
Espace des sciences
Fort National
Fort du Guesclin
Frac Bretagne
La Ferme Marine de Cancale
In a pleasant setting overlooking the port of Cancale, let yourself be guided and surprised by the world of the "sea gardeners".
Le parc et château du Bois d'Orcan
Les Remparts de Saint-Malo
Their construction began in 1144, at the instigation of the bishopric of Aleth moving its seat to the rock, the layout of the place allowing better defence.
Manoir de l'automobile
Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes
Océlia
Located at Montfort-sur-Meu, the Ocelia aquatic centre offers 1,430 m² indoors and 4,000 m² of green spaces.
Paimpont et la forêt de Brocéliande
Come and discover Brocéliande and its mysteries. This mythical forest opens its undergrowth to you for a unique stay.
Parc du château de Bonnefontaine
The park of the château de Bonnefontaine, classified a remarkable garden, is 25 km from Fougères and 18 km from Mont-Saint-Michel, on the banks of the Couesnon, in the Ille-et-Vilaine département on the border of Brittany and Normandy.
Petit Bé
Rochers Scuptés de Rothéneuf
Five kilometres from Saint-Malo, following the sea towards Cancale, the Sculpted Rocks of Rothéneuf form a strange world, peopled with characters from another time: the grimacing figures shaped by the hand of man evoke medieval gargoyles and the beings…
Rochers des Couardes
Saint-Suliac
Set in the centre of a tangle of narrow lanes, lined with fishermen's houses or granite walls enclosing gardens, the church of Saint-Suliac overlooks with its imposing bell tower an old cemetery with which it forms a parish close, rare in Upper Brittany.
Thuya géant de Vitré
In the Vitré park, in Ille-et-Vilaine, stands a California arborvitae remarkable for its exceptional dimensions.
Tour Solidor
Tourbière du Marais de Parigné
Val sans retour
The Val sans Retour is among the most recognised and most magical sites of the Brocéliande forest.