Chaos de l'Ile Renote

The Île Renote, at Trégastel, on the pink granite coast of the Côtes-d'Armor, was an island accessible at low tide until the building of a causeway in 1885, which turned it into a peninsula. The site has been listed as a picturesque site since 1977.

The pink granite forms a chaos of blocks over a hundred metres along the water. Erosion has sculpted shapes that have been named painter's palette, whale's head or mushroom, as well as basins carved by water. Traces of human occupation go back a very long way: the peninsula is said to have been frequented 150,000 years ago, and a Neolithic dolmen, Ty-al-Lia, stands there, on private land. The customs officers' path (GR34) runs along the coast and offers views of the Sept-Îles archipelago, the Île du Gouffre and the Costaérès castle.

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