A spectacular headland on Brittany's Emerald Coast, with pink and grey sandstone cliffs over 70 metres high, purple heather and gorse, and colonies of seabirds. A lighthouse stands on the point.
Walk the coast path about four kilometres to Fort la Latte, a medieval castle on a rock above the sea. The neighbouring Cap d'Erquy has wild beaches and heathland too.
Saint-Malo, the walled corsair city on the Brittany coast, was largely rebuilt after the Second World War, and its granite ramparts make a complete w…
A rocky tidal island in the bay between Normandy and Brittany, crowned by a Benedictine abbey begun in the 8th century and rebuilt over the following…
One of the oldest monuments in the world: a long stepped mound of stone built around 4,500 BC, older than the pyramids of Egypt, on a headland above …
The wild northwest tip of the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, with high cliffs, heathland and tiny harbours, often compared with Ireland or Cornwall.
On 6 June 1944, Allied forces landed on five beaches along this coast in the largest seaborne invasion in history.
More than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones, set up in long rows over 4 km of countryside by people living here between about 4500 and 3300 BC.
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