What to see in Brittany

Aquarium Marin de Trégastel

The Trégastel Marine Aquarium stands 100 metres from the beach and is hollowed out beneath a great pink granite boulder known as the "Père Éternel".

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.

Océanopolis

"Océanopolis Brest": the ocean discovery park. Everything you need for an unforgettable day!

Cap Fréhel

Cap Fréhel is the largest area (nearly 400 hectares) of coastal heath on the French coasts.

Château de Fort La Latte

Every castle has its legends, and Fort La Latte is no exception.

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.

La Pointe du Raz

Located at the prow of Brittany in the Cap Sizun country, the Pointe du Raz is one of the most striking sites of the Atlantic coast.

Les Rochers de Ploumanac'h

Sculpted by the sea and time, balanced in a sometimes more than improbable equilibrium, steeped in mystery and fuelling the imagination, the rocks recall the power of the natural elements.

Cap d'Erquy

Pink sandstone cliffs 470 million years old, heaths and old quarries, at the eastern end of the bay of Saint-Brieuc.

Chaos de l'Ile Renote

The Renote peninsula is a protected natural area that shelters many chaos of pink granite, with fauna and flora characteristic of the seaside.

Concarneau

A Breton fishing port known for its Ville Close, a fortified town built on a rocky islet linked to the land by two bridges in the heart of the port.

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.

Le Chaos de Huelgoat

Huelgoat is nestled in the heart of a forest massif of more than 2,000 ha (state and private forests). Set beside a small lake that flows into the Rivière d'Argent before tumbling in a cascade into a ravine strewn with a chaos of enormous granite blocks. The land is covered with woods...

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.

Plage de Donnant

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

Plage de Lostmarc'h

Wild beach on the Crozon peninsula, between dunes, cliffs and the remains of an Iron Age fort.

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.

Pointe de Dinan

The Pointe de Dinan, also called the Château de Dinan (with its drawbridge!), is a site not well known to tourists, and yet, what beauty!

Quimper

Prefecture of the Finistère and traditional capital of Cornouaille, where the twin spires of Saint-Corentin cathedral overlook a half-timbered centre.

Rennes

Capital of Brittany at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine, whose historic centre has kept hundreds of colourful half-timbered houses.

Rochers de Brignogan

Brignogan lies on the Côte des Légendes. The landscape looks like a postcard of the islands.

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.

Aqualorn

Aquarium Charles Pérez

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.

Aquashow

The seabed as if you were there! A 2h30 visit to discover 200 species of fish including a giant tank (500,000 litres) with sharks.

ArchéoMusée Coriosolis (ex-Centre d'interprétation du patrimoine Coriosolis)

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.

Cairn de Barnenez

The Barnenez cairn (Karn Barnenez in Breton) is a megalithic site in the commune of Plouezoc'h (in Brittany, France).

Cathédraloscope

Château de "Kergournadeac'h"

Château de Beauvais (Gévezé)

Château de Bienassis

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 Brest

Set on a Gallo-Roman base of the third century, Brest castle was completed by Vauban in the seventeenth century.

Château de Caradeuc

Château de Cheffontaines

Château de Châteaugiron

Of the old medieval fortress, renovated between 1450 and 1470 by Jean de Derval, important remains survive.

Château de Coat-an-noz

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 Comper

Château de Costaérès

Château de Dinan

Dinan has many medieval ruins including almost intact ramparts and the "castle of Duchess Anne".

Château de Fougères

Fortified from the eleventh century, the castle was originally built on a rocky promontory emerging from a marsh.