Morbihan: what to see and do

Golfe du Morbihan

A small inland sea sown with a multitude of islands, the Gulf of Morbihan owes its Breton name, "little sea", to this sheltered stretch of the ocean. Megaliths, oyster farming and fishing villages make up the identity of this territory apart.

Plage de Donnant

Large wild beach on the west coast of Belle-Île-en-Mer, between dunes and cliffs.

Plage des Grands Sables (Groix)

One of Europe's rare convex beaches, on the east coast of the island of Groix, with white sand and turquoise water.

Vannes

Prefecture of the Morbihan with intact medieval ramparts, where old wash-houses line the gardens below the half-timbered houses.

Aiguilles de Port Coton

Located west of Belle-Île, on the wild coast, the needles have as their neighbour the Grand Phare guiding sailors with its range of 111 km...

Alignements de Carnac

The Carnac alignments are in the commune of Carnac in the Morbihan département in Brittany.

Aquarium de Vannes

In an exceptional site, on the edge of the Gulf of Morbihan, the Vannes Oceanographic and Tropical Aquarium houses several hundred species of the most diverse fish from all the waters of the world.

Base sous-marine de Lorient

The Lorient submarine base, or Keroman submarine base, is a complex of Second World War bunkers in Lorient in the Morbihan.

Château de Comper

Château de Josselin

The vast fortress of Josselin, built in the eleventh century, was rebuilt by Olivier de Clisson in the fourteenth century.

Château de Kerguéhennec

Château de Kermadio

Château de Largoet

Château de Meudon (Vannes)

Château de Pontivy

It was raised in the fifteenth century by Jean II de Rohan. The façade has kept two large machicolated towers, capped with pepper-pot roofs, of the four that made up the enclosure.

Château de Suscinio

An impressive fortress built and remodelled in the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries on the edge of the ocean, the château de Suscinio was one of the favourite residences of the dukes of Brittany.

Château de Séréac

Château de Trécesson

Surrounded by the waters of its pond, this castle built of reddish schist at the end of the fourteenth century has kept its medieval look.

Château de Trédion

Château de l'Hermine

Château de la Grée de Callac

Château-Gaillard (Vannes)

Citadelle de Belle-ile-en-Mer

A citadel of 10 ha whose ramparts extend over 4 km, it brings together about ten buildings totalling more than 10,000 m² of floor space, not counting very many casemates.

Citadelle de Port-Louis

The Port-Louis Citadel is a citadel built in the sixteenth century by the Spanish, then modified in the seventeenth century by the French.

Cité de la voile Éric Tabarly

The Cité de la Voile Éric Tabarly puts the visitor in the heart of ocean adventure, in the world of modern sailing and offshore racing.

Domaine de Kerguehennec centre d'art

The contemporary art centre of the Domaine de Kerguéhennec was built on the foundations of the sculpture park.

Ecomusée de l'île de Groix

Grotte Marines de Porthos

Belle-Île-en-Mer, on the Atlantic Ocean facing Quiberon, is the largest of the Ponant islands but also the wildest.

Kingoland

La ferme du monde

Since 1996, LA FERME DU MONDE at Carentoir in the Morbihan, Brittany, has brought together 400 farm animals from the 5 continents. They live in semi-freedom in a wooded park where nature offers calm and rest. The place is entertaining and instructive.

Lac de Guerlédan et Gorges du Daoula

Lac de Guerlédan winds between the Daoulas gorges and the Quénécan forest. It is a superb site for walks or water activities.

Le Grand Site Dunaire Gâvres Quiberon et la Ria d'Etel

The dune massif between the Gâvres peninsula and the Quiberon peninsula is the largest in Brittany with 25 linear kilometres of dunes.

Le château de LEHELEC

Les Terres de Nataé (ex-Zoo de Pont-Scorff)

The Pont-Scorff zoo presents a major zoological collection made up of large mammals (Asian elephants, hippopotamuses, black rhinoceroses), very many felines (lions, tigers, panthers, pumas, etc.), various herbivores (giraffes, zebras…), primates, birds, etc.

Musée de Carnac

Carnac is a high place of Prehistory. The James Miln – Zacharie Le Rouzic Prehistory Museum is in a former presbytery, in the heart of the town.

Musée de la Compagnie des Indes

Parc de Branféré

Branféré offers visitors the charm of a park with several-centuries-old trees, populated by exotic species from the five continents.

Parc de préhistoire de Bretagne

Parc forestier et jardins de Loyat

The château and the park that surrounds it were made by Olivier Delourme, a Vannes architect native of the parish of Loyat, for René de Coëtlogon, Viscount of Loyat, between 1708 and 1738.

Plessis-Josso

The well-preserved and still inhabited manor rises in a pleasant green setting near a pond. Built around 1330 by Sylvestre Josso, ducal squire, during the troubled period of the Breton War of Succession (14th century), it then passed by marriage into the powerful Rosmadec family…

Rochefort-en-Terre

Rochefort-en-Terre is a very pretty Town of Character built in a superb site, the Gueuzon valley, a landscape of granite rocks, woods and meadows.

Site mégalithique de Locmariaquer

A megalithic site on the Gulf of Morbihan with the Grand Menhir Brisé and the Table des Marchand.

Tourbières de Kerfontaine

This peat bog is the last significant area for the whole of eastern Morbihan and the Landes de Lanvaux massif as regards species representative of these environments.

Tropical Parc

Village de Poul-Fétan

Baie d'Étel

At the mouth of the Étel river, a moving sandbar makes the harbour entrance particularly feared by sailors. This ria landscape, between mudflats and sandbanks, is one of the richest bird refuges in the Morbihan.

Lorient

A great Breton port founded by the Compagnie des Indes, entirely rebuilt after the war, today a high place of competitive sailing and Celtic music.