Brittany holiday apartments, homes and villas

Why choose a holiday home in Brittany?

Extending hundreds of miles into the Atlantic Ocean is a land of open, smiling people determined to show you a great time. History and heritage are the veneer on every aspect of life in northern France.

Côtes d'Armor has over 19 miles of coastline dominated by pink granite that is so rare it only exists in Corsica and China.

Travel west to Finistere to visit the Armorique Regional Park near the sprawling port town of Brest. Fishing villages promote their individual personalities along the 1,700 miles of oceanfront. This area hosts hordes of visitors to the fortress renaissance castle at Kerjean.

Ille-et-Vilaine draws many hikers and cyclists to the Villecartier Forest and water sports are popular on the lake. The young and the young at heart will enjoy the La Bourbansais Zoo and some of the delightfully unusual animal residents. Many choose to split the day with the Cobac Theme Park which is definitely favored by young people.

Prehistoric sites, mysterious megaliths, and other unexplained standing stones are scattered throughout Brittany. Your travels throughout the region may take you to the villages and coastal communities that inspired the art of Chagall, Gauguin, and Wintz.

In this part of France you are forgiven if you relax with cider, locally brewed beers, or mead created from wild honey.

Contribution posted: 11 June 2010