Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Dinan, France

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Number of sights 7 sights
Distance 2.6 km
Ascend 58 m
Descend 119 m

Explore Dinan in France with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Sight 1: Dinan

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Dinan station is a French railway station on the Lison to Lamballe line, in the town of Dinan, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany. It has included a railway museum since 1991. The station was opened in 1879 by the Western Railways Company. It is now a station of the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF), served by trains operated by TER Bretagne.

Wikipedia: Dinan station (EN)

751 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 2: Église Saint-Malo

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Église Saint-Malo Édouard Hue (User:EdouardHue) / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Church of Saint-Malo is a fifteenth-century Roman Catholic church in Dinan, France. It is representative of the Flamboyant Gothic style in Brittany.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Malo de Dinan (FR)

129 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Les Cordeliers (Ancien couvent des Franciscains)

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Les Cordeliers (Ancien couvent des Franciscains)

The Convent of the Cordeliers is a religious monument dating back to the thirteenth century. This building is located in the town of Dinan, in the Côtes-d'Armor. The convent is now home to the private Catholic secondary school of Les Cordeliers.

Wikipedia: Couvent des Cordeliers de Dinan (FR)

302 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: Basilique Saint-Sauveur

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Basilique Saint-Sauveur This photo was taken by Eusebius (Guillaume Piolle).Feel free to reuse it, but always credit me as the author as specified below. / CC BY 3.0

The Basilica of Saint-Sauveur de Dinan is a Roman Catholic church situated in Dinan, France. Historically, it is one of the two parish churches in the town, the other being Saint-Malo.

Wikipedia: Basilica of Saint-Sauveur (Dinan) (EN)

92 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Charles Roland Néel de la Vigne

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59 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Auguste Pavie

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Auguste Pavie

Auguste Jean-Marie Pavie was a French colonial civil servant, explorer and diplomat who was instrumental in establishing French control over Laos in the last two decades of the 19th century. After a long career in Cambodia and Cochinchina, Pavie became the first French vice-consul in Luang Prabang in 1886, eventually becoming the first Governor-General and plenipotentiary minister of the newly formed French colony of Laos.

Wikipedia: Auguste Pavie (EN)

1294 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 7: Maison d'artiste de la Grande Vigne

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The Maison d'artiste de la Grande Vigne, also known as the Yvonne Jean-Haffen Museum, is the artist's house, which she offered to the City of Dinan in 1987, with her furniture and studio collection to make it an artist's house and present her work.

Wikipedia: Maison d'artiste de la Grande Vigne (FR)

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