10 Sights in Saint-Malo, France (with Map and Images)

Saint-Malo Cathedral is a Catholic Cathedral located in Saint-Malo, Brittany, France. The church was founded in dedication to Saint Vincent of Saragossa and is a national monument of France. It was built in a mix of Romanesque and Gothic styles during the episcopacy of Jean de Châtillon (1146-1163) on the site of an ancient church founded in the 7th century. The cathedral suffered damage during World War II when the steeple toppled onto the Sacred Heart Chapel. An organ which had been built in 1893 by Louis Debierre was destroyed. On 21 May 1972, after 28 years of work, a ceremony was held to celebrate the completion of the restoration. It is a stop on the Tro Breizh, a Catholic pilgrimage that links the towns of the seven founding saints of Brittany.

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Étoile du Roy, formerly Grand Turk, is a three-masted sixth-rate frigate, designed to represent a generic warship during the Age of Sail, with her design greatly inspired by HMS Blandford. The ship was built in Marmaris, Turkey, in 1996 to provide a replica of a frigate for the production of the ITV series adapted from the novels about Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower by C. S. Forester. Nowadays the tall ship is used mainly in sailing events, for corporate or private charter, and for receptions in her spacious saloon or on her deck. In 2010 the French company Étoile Marine Croisières, based at Saint-Malo, Brittany, purchased the ship and renamed her Étoile du Roy.

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The Great Aquarium – Saint-Malo is an aquarium in Saint-Malo, France. It opened in 1996 and now belongs to the group Compagnie des Alpes, which also owns many other parks in France and Europe. The aquarium houses 11,000 marine animals representing 600 species. It covers 4,000 square metres (43,000 sq ft) and holds 2,500,000 litres (660,000 US gal) of water . 360,000 people visit this site each year making it the second most visited tourist site in Brittany.

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The Château de la Briantais is a castle dating from 1864 located on the territory of the former commune of Saint-Servan, now Saint-Malo, in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine, in Brittany. It replaces an old manor house dating from 1666 and has belonged to the City of Saint-Malo since 1999. It also includes a 27-hectare English-style park overlooking the Rance estuary. It was listed as a historical monument by decree of 12 September 2022.

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The Cap-Hornier International Long-Course Museum, created by the curator of the museums of Saint-Malo, Dan Lailler, is located in the Saint-Servan district in the city of Saint-Malo in Ille-et-Vilaine. It closed its doors for good in November 2019. A maritime museum project, taking over the old collections, is due to be completed in 2024.

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Chateaubriand's Tomb is the tomb where François-René de Chateaubriand, a famous French writer born in Saint-Malo on September 4, 1768 and died in Paris on July 4, 1848, is buried. It is located on the islet of Grand Bé, in Saint-Malo, its hometown. The tomb has been listed as a historical monument since 1954.

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The Maison du Peuple de Saint-Malo is a building built in 1920 in Saint-Malo on the plans of Edmond Eugène Mantrand. It consists of a pavilion located at 13, avenue Jean-Jaurès, and a village hall built in its extension at the rear. The whole has been registered as historic monuments since November 16, 2011.

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The Château de Saint-Malo is a building built between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries and located east of the walled city of Saint-Malo in Brittany (France). The castle was built by the Dukes of Brittany to ensure their authority over the city of Saint-Malo.

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The Malouinière de la Chipaudière, also known as the Château de la Chipaudière, built in Paramé, a commune that merged with Saint-Malo, is one of the largest malouinières, these pleasure residences built by shipowners from Saint-Malo.

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The Hôtel d'Asfeld is a private mansion located in Saint-Malo in France built in the seventeenth century. It is the last shipowner's hotel in Saint-Malo not to have been destroyed during the Second World War.

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