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Two Weeks in Northern Brittany

• Explore Brittany’s largest • Identify the curious
market at the Place des eroded shapes in the
Lices in Rennes. Côte de Granite Rose
• Tour the mighty medieval around Perros-Guirec.
castles in Vitré and • Descend in a glass-lined
Fougères. lift into a pod of sharks
• Visit spectacular Mont- at the remarkable
St-Michel and its abbey, Océanopolis in Brest.
majestically isolated in • Admire the scenery
a sweeping tidal bay. of cliffs and beaches at
• Imagine the lives of the Le Conquet, and sail to
corsairs in the granite France’s westernmost
Île de point, the Île
Bréhat walled port of St-Malo.
Perros-Guirec Tréguier d’Ouessant.
Île de Batz
Cairn de Paimpol
Keremma Carantec Barnenez Lannion Château de Vitré
Lesneven Château St-Cast-Le Cancale Perched on a rocky outcrop, the
Île de Kerjean Mont-
d’Ouessant Le Folgoët Morlaix Sables-d'Or-les-Pins Guildo Dinard St-Malo St-Michel imposing Château de Vitré houses
Bodilis
St- St-Thégonnec St-Briac St-Lunaire an excellent museum that contains
Renan Landerneau Guimillau Pléneuf Mont-Dol medieval and Renaissance sculpture,
La Martyre Val-André Dol-de-
Le Conquet Brest CÔTES St-Brieuc Bretagne Menhir du Breton paintings as well as 16th- and
Daoulas D’ARMOR Dinan Champ-Dolent 17th-century tapestries.
Camaret Landévennec
Crozon Rance
Pleyben ILLE-ET- Fougères
VILAINE
Aulne
FINISTÈRE Ille
Rennes Vitré
Kernascléden Forêt de
Quimper Pontivy Paimpont Château des
Rochers-Sévigné
Paimpont
Concarneau Josselin
Quimperlé Ploërmel
Pont-Aven
MORBIHAN A Week in
Îles de Glénan Lorient Vilai ne Southern Brittany
Auray • Ride a giant mechanical
Île de Groix Vannes Redon
Carnac Questembert elephant at Les Machines
Parc Zoologique d’Île in Nantes.
Cairn de
Presqu’île de Gavrinis de Branféré LOIRE-
Quiberon ATLANTIQUE • Seek out the Tomb of Merlin
La Roche-
Bernard Erdre and the Fountain of Youth in
Île de Brest
Belle-Île- Houat the Forêt de Paimpont.
en-Mer Parc Régional
Guérande de Brière • Watch the colourful exotic
Île de
Hoëdic Le Croisic La Baule St-Nazaire bird show in the Parc
Pornichet Zoologique de Branféré.
• Take a boat ride past
Nantes
Loire
Pornic thatched cottages in the
Parc Naturel Régional de
Île de la Grande Brière.
Noirmoutier
• Relax on the sandy beaches
of La Baule, and encounter
creatures from the deep at
the Océarium du Croisic.
• Discover the history of the
Key great Transatlantic ocean
Two Weeks in Northern Brittany liners at Escal-Atlantique in
A Week in Southwestern Brittany St-Nazaire.
A Week in Southern Brittany
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