Located in Penvern, the Notre-Dame de Cîteaux Chapel, among the oldest in the area, is worth the detour for the magnificent altarpiece which it houses. Its paintings and sculptures are a superb example of Renaissance art. On your way to the chapel, you will pass near the fountain, which was reputed to have the power to cure certain ailments.
The guardhouse, TyGward in Breton, is an imposing block of granite which stands at the highest point of Île Grande. Right around the periphery of the island, grey and blue granite was mined for...
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Dating from before 2,000 B.C., the megaliths of Kerguntuil are the impressive remnants of the structures built by Neolithic man. These immense monuments of assembled stones (the gallery grave is 9...
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The bay of Trestraou was at the root of the development of tourism in Perros-Guirec. In the nineteenth century, swimming in the sea was recognised for its curative qualities and became fashionable....
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The Toëno area, which shows evidence of the granite extraction work of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is also a marshland of outstanding ecological value. If you visit at low tide, you will...
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