Vannes city

Gulf of Morbihan :

This southern department of Brittany is fascinating and lovely with its historical towns like Vannes and Auray, its wellknown menhirs of Carnac, and its long peninsula of Quiberon.

Its interior sea, sprinkled with a multitude of islands, is a heaven for pleasure sailing and sea birds.

Giving to the land of Vannes a nice and luminous weather, the Gulf of Morbihan is an enchanting site for dream holidays.


Gulf of Mobihan : the little Sea

The Gulf of Morbihan is an inland sea, which opens onto the Mor-Braz(the Breton word for ocean) by the narrows separating Port Naval from Locmariaquer. The Gulf of Morbihan, "little sea" in Breton, was flooded by the Atlantic waters. By the ebb and the flow, the sea has vreated islands and islets, forming to day a substantial archipelago : the île aux Moines and île d'Arz are the most famous. There are around forty rocky islets and wooded islands sometimes inhabited by a hamlet of fishermen or simply a flock of birds. The small sea is a basin of 11,500 hectares, a magnificent maritime environnmental mosaic with islands, beaches, mud holes, estuaries, rias, marshlands....
All of which make a paradise for the birds. The natural marsland Reserve of Séné is ideal for observing the movements of the litle egrets, mergansers, shelduck, ibis, barnacle geese....

It is also an ideal place for water sports enthusiasts. A treat for those who sail, kayack, wind surf....

The Gulf of Morbihan, member of the club of the "Moste Beautiful Bays in the World", will never cease to atonish you. It is a very popular area and an immense attraction for visitors ; even so we should not forget that it remains nevertheless fragile.


Vannes : >> www.mairie-vannes.fr

Formely a Gallo-Roman capital and home to the Dukes of Brittany, Vannes is today one of the most oustanding towns in Britattany for its architectural heritage.

Vannes is not satisfied with being a picturesque town on the Gulf of Morbihan : it is also the most dynamic medium-sized town in France.