Discover the morbihan department

Discover towns and cities to visit in the morbihan department.

Visit the town of malestroit  Find the authenticity of the landscapes, halfway between the gulf of Morbihan and the Forest of Brocéliande, in the middle of the Gallo Country.  Tourist sites and Routes  The Saint-Michel door  Right tower of one of the four doors of the enclosure of 1463. With the foot of the wall, water ditches, filled today, were fed by Oust.  The door of the drapers up to the XIX ème century, only point of passage (ford in the beginning) on Oust: the name of Malestroit comes from Breton “the Maël” (prince, large) and “Trec' H” (passage)  The vault of the Madeleine ,  Seen on the left on the bell-tower of the Romance vault of the Madeleine. During the war of succession of Brittany (in full One hundred year old war) the kings of France and England, Philippe VI of Valois and Édouard III, sign there, on January 19, 1343, the Truce of Malestroit.  The presbytery  Founded in 1419 by the chancellor of Brittany Jean de Malestroit, bishop of Nantes under the duke Jean V. Door and bays Gothic.  House in tuffeau.  Tuffeau brought by barges to the XIXème century. Originality in the city, built out of varied materials: granite, schists purple and green, conglomerate, sandstone.  François-Virginia  On board this small sailing ship of 7 meters 80, built its hands and bearing the name of the parents of Roger Plisson, this Malestroyen produced a turn of the world between 1967 and 1969. The Saint-Julien suburb  Old port of Malestroit  1977: end of the thousand-year-old commercial traffic on Oust (last barge: Mistral) The new bridge goes back to 1863.  Gothic house  Carry to accodance worked on carved bases. Pediment of the XVIIème century in tuffeau.  The place of Bouffay  Principal place of the city, with the crossing of the principal streets. Until 1922 markets of XVème rose there.  Saint-Gilles church  Two quite distinct styles: novel XIIème (southern transept in ferruginous conglomerate) and Gothic (granite). Its originality: two coupled naves (XV and XVIème), separated by a small belfry. Southern gate (principal entry) with Romance sculptures: Samson with the lion on the left and undoubtedly the bull of Luc Saint on the right. Interior: Romance vaults angevines, large stained glass of the bedside (1960 life of Gilles Saint), pulpit of XVIIIème, stained glass beginning of XVème (lives of Saint-Gilles and Saint Nicolas).  Half-timbered house  Recently repainted, she points out to us the importance of the color in the Middle Ages: houses and interior of the cathedrals are, indeed, often polychrome.

Visit the town of trehorenteuc  Smaller commune of Morbihan, classified common of the rural inheritance, 121 inhabitants, 6 trade (2 bars, a pancake shop, 2 souvenir shops, 1 riding school). At the beginning the many ones stroll in the middle of the forest of Brocéliande. Near to the site of the valley without return, place related on the legend arthurienne and the Morgane fairy… 300 m of the gold tree. Many lodgings on places (rooms of hosts, furnished and Rando reception). The office of tourism proposes throughout the year of the visits for groups and individual.

Vannes  Born there is more than 2000 years, at the bottom of the Gulf of Morbihan, Vannes presents today the contrasted marks of its development, based a long time on a prosperous maritime trade. Along the narrow lanes or around its places, the city with the inheritance in charge of history, offers diversified environments. Valves remains of share its origins, the administrative center of Morbihan. Since many Vannes years knew to preserve and emphasize its architectural heritage. In 1982, the plan of safeguard of the sector is approved and in 1990, the city receives the label “town of art and history” in order to develop, in collaboration with the ministry for the culture, the actions of valorization and promotion of this inheritance.

Visit the town of guer-coetquidan  Orée of the Forest of Brocéliande, kingdom of Merlin the Enchanter, discover the country of Guer-Coëtquidan to the wire of the hiking trails, among the moors and the menhirs. Plunge in the middle of a natural and architectural inheritance remarkable.

Visit the town of sarzeau  In the middle of Southern Brittany, along the Gulf of Morbihan, the commune of Sarzeau, chief town of canton of the Peninsula of Rhuys… Bordered in North, by the Gulf of Morbihan piqué of its innumerable islands, in the South by the Atlantic Coast which is stretched in a succession of beaches separated by rock points… Sarzeau is a commune with strong maritime and oyster identity, enracinée in the Breton traditions!

Visit the town of lorient  You are in the middle of Southern Brittany, a country of a diversity which will astonish you. Here, the rivers go to the sea. The green valleys of Blavet, Scorff, of Laïta, are the water ways come from high interior Brittany. The fresh water mixes with water salted with the sea Celtique and the Bay of Biscay, in one of the most beautiful roads of France. Protected by the mysterious island from Groix, the roads of Lorient offer a sure shelter to the sailors, since the Neolithic era. The Companies of the Indies were born there. They brought there their spice perfumes and tastes of salt to the XVIIIe century. Then, the royal Navy, industrial fishing, the coastal traffic worked the Country of Lorient. The battle of the Atlantic in made - brutally - an essential witness of the history of the XXe century. The sailors made and remakes, this country anchored in its Celtic roots, and for better opening on the world. They accomodate you. Good arrival with you, degemer chechmate!