A walled corsair city, an oyster port, a Belle Époque seaside resort, a fort facing the sea and a medieval town: in two days, the Emerald Coast concentrates the charm of northern Brittany.
The map shows the numbered stops in visiting order, with one colour per day. The line follows the roads where available; otherwise it joins the stops as the crow flies. Distances and times are approximate (by car, without traffic).
Saint-Malo: a walk round the ramparts, the Grand Aquarium and the carved rocks of Rothéneuf, then Cancale and its oyster beds.
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.
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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.
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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…
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In a pleasant setting overlooking the port of Cancale, let yourself be guided and surprised by the world of the "sea gardeners".
View full page →Dinard and its villas, Fort La Latte and Cap Fréhel, then Dinan, a medieval town on the banks of the Rance.
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.
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Every castle has its legends, and Fort La Latte is no exception.
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Cap Fréhel is the largest area (nearly 400 hectares) of coastal heath on the French coasts.
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Surrounded by 3 kilometres of ramparts, the medieval town of Dinan, unique in Brittany, and its many half-timbered houses have overlooked the Rance Valley since the eleventh century.
View full page →From April to October, with spectacular spring tides in spring and autumn. Summer is the high season, very busy in Saint-Malo.
A car lets you link Saint-Malo, Cancale, Dinard, Cap Fréhel and Dinan. A water bus crosses the Rance estuary between Saint-Malo and Dinard. Saint-Malo is served by TGV.