The wild western shore of the Quiberon peninsula, where Atlantic waves crash against granite cliffs, arches and coves. A coast path runs its whole length, past the rock arch at Port Blanc.
Swimming is forbidden here because of dangerous currents; swim on the sheltered eastern side of the peninsula instead. The dunes of Gâvres to the north are also part of the protected site.
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.
A remarkable group of Neolithic monuments near the Gulf of Morbihan: the Great Broken Menhir of Er Grah, once over 20 metres tall and the largest sta…
A cross-shaped peninsula in Finistère with some of Brittany's most spectacular coast: the cliffs of Cap de la Chèvre, the Pointe de Penhir with its r…
A dramatic rocky point at the western tip of Brittany, jutting into the Atlantic, with the lighthouses of La Vieille and Ar Men in the swirling curre…
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 …
A spectacular headland on Brittany's Emerald Coast, with pink and grey sandstone cliffs over 70 metres high, purple heather and gorse, and colonies o…
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