Things to do in Lorient
Around Lorient, Notrebellefrance lists 11 tourist sites within 18 km, including 4 museums, 2 zoos and wildlife parks and 2 natural wonders. Not to be missed: Plage des Grands Sables (Groix), Cité de la voile Éric Tabarly and Base sous-marine de Lorient.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Musée de la Compagnie des Indes
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.
Ecomusée de l'île de Groix
Parc Animalier du "Quinquis"
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.
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.
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.