Brittany

Brittany has many facets, ranging from a wild, almost inhospitable land with rugged, windswept shores to a mystical region given to legend and superstition, where forests and roadside crosses convey an atmosphere of sanctity. But Brittany can also take on a festive air, when villagers make merry at "fest-noz" and when heather, broom and hydrangea add vivid bursts of colour to the rock landscape.
Whether approached by land or by sea, Brittany will never cease to amaze visitors. The 1,700-kilometre coastline between Dinard and Nantes will delight bathers and deep-sea divers thanks to its many maritime features: meandering estuaries, lighthouses perched on stone promontories, sand and pebble beaches, steep cliffs, piers, capes and strings of islets.
Inland, visitors may choose to take advantage of the first-rate thalassotherapy treatment at one of Brittany's many spas. Or they may prefer to wander along charming country lanes, feasting their eyes on grey and blue cottages bordered with hortensias, old fountains and chapels, or parish enclosures. They will discover Brittany's famous landes and forests, the remains of former megalithic sites, traditionally peopled with elves and fairies and where the spirit of Merlin the Magician still hovers above moonlit trees.
You will always find something to do: sailing from Bénodet down the Odet, visiting the open-air fish market at Guilvinec, setting out to explore the Ile de Sein or becoming acquainted with Breton artists on the painters' way from Douarnenez to Pont-Aven.
On your travels from the coastal city of Saint-Malo to colourful Belle-Ile or from Pointe du Raz to the Morbihan Gulf, your exertions will undoubtedly whet your appetite for the tasty specialities for which Brittany is famed: buckwheat-flour pancakes, kouign-amann cookies and their buttery, caramelised flavour, sausages stuffed with chitterlings from Guéméné and Belon oysters. But maybe the most essential ingredient of Breton charm is the radiant light which suffuses the landscape and which has captivated so many artists.

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