Its soft coast and its climate, one makes of Dinard a seaside resort appraisal since the end of the XIXe century.
The white port, Holy Enogat, the great beach priory as many different beaches in Dinard which will enable you to appreciate the edge of sea. Many walks along the covered ways will allow you to discover the coast.
The factory tide-motor coach of Rancid (3kms)
Only factory tide-motor coach in the world located on the estuary of Rancid it connects Dinard in Saint-Malo (guided tours).
The city owes its current name to a monk named Malo or Maclou which, with the Life century, founded a monastery in the vicinity, on the island of Aaron. The city inhabitant of Saint Malo was one of the starting centers of the great maritime discoveries in XVIe century. The navigator Jacques Cartier, native of the city, embarked there to explore Canada. Capital of the sea resolutely turned towards the broad grnd, Saint-Malo is at the same time a reputée seaside resort, the theatre with open sky of the spring tides of Europe and the appointment impossible to circumvent of the international nautical competitions.
The City Corsair is also classified "Town of art" and offers twelve centuries a pilot architectural heritage of an animated maritime history. As much by tonicity of its iodized climate that by the beauty of its landscapes cotiers, Saint-Malo is the town of Brittany which visits itself in all seasons.
To see: Ramparts surrounding the city of which oldest go up in XIIe century, the Large Door (XVe century), the cathedral Saint-Vincent (XIIe-XIIe-XVIIIe century), the castle which shelters the historical museum of the city and the museum of the Navy, the marine aquarium.
The old city kept its ramparts of XIIIe and XIVe centuries, as its medieval castle which shelters a museum (religious art, furniture XVIIIe and XIXe century, local history). TheSaint-Sauveur basilica shows a Romance porch and beautiful carved capitals. The Saint-Malo church is of blazing style, with a particularly remarkable chorus and a bedside (end XVe). The belfry, known as turn of the Clock, shelters the clock bought by the Commune in 1498 as well as the Anne bumblebee offered to the city by the Anne duchess in 1507. The history of the city was marked by Bertrand Of Guesclin: in 1357, it defends the city against the English. Constrained to ask trêve, it had to fight and overcame the English knight Canterbury.
Village of fisherman and seaside resort, Cancale is re-elected since the XVIIe century, for its oysters (digs, punt, foot of cheval).Sur the port, southern full talk you will be able to taste oysters and to see with far the Michaelmas mount. While going up by the way of the customs officers you will be able to arrive at the point of the FACE MASK and to see the islands chausey. With its oysters punts or hollow with the salt and iodine bouquet, its fish of Bay unloaded each day with the port of the Swell, the famous kitchen of its heads invites to discover the rich person savours of the sea and its soil.
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