Streets squares and districts to visit Finistère

Concarneau is a typical Breton city with many facets: marina, fishing port, remains of an old fortified town in the th and th centuries, coastal trails, beaches and coves of fine sand, walks are varied and can take you round to discover the architecture of the city and its wild and seductive natural sites. After your walks in Concarneau, the sea air will surely have opened your appetite, so to satisfy your snack, you will have to stop at one of the many restaurants in the city, and there is a great chance that you will recover from Concarneau.

A former «closed city», enclosed in thick walls, Concarneau has now opened up to the territory and tourism. Six interpretive circuits allow to wander around the city by discovering its history and main buildings. The themes are varied: Sardinians, Artists, Railwaymen, Vahics, Unusual closed city (shortest) and seaside promenade (longest). These are all routes that will give a thread a ride from one to two hours. Plans are available at the Tourist Office or on its website.

Tariff: free.

Duration: 1 a. m. to 2 a. m.

Difficulty: easy.

Rue Jean Jaurès is, along with Rue de Siam, one of the two most commercial arteries of the city of Brest. Linking the Place de la Liberté to the Place de Strasbourg, it is lined with shops. From fashion to restaurants, banks, hairdressers, bars and cinemas, you can easily spend your day there! Without forgetting to make a little detour to the Place Guérin and the Saint-Martin district, with its church and daily market. A piece of advice: take advantage of the tram, which serves the whole street, to get around...

Brest has a constantly changing urban fabric. The artists appropriate the walls and underline the history of the city of Le Ponant through gigantic paintings. Rue Anatole France is an example of this desire to promote art and revitalize the city's right bank. In this long street, you can admire about ten frescoes, designed and created by the Lyon muralist painters of CitéCréation, who worked in collaboration with illustrators, comic book authors and renowned architects such as Pierre-Henri Argouarch, Liliwen, Benjamin Flao, Patrice Pellerin, etc. If we can deplore the lack of commented visit of this street of Brest, we can get the paper guide " Les murs ont la parole " available at the tourist office.

Other murals are scattered all over Brest. The site www.streetart-brest.fr lists nearly 650 of them. It's up to you to lose yourself in the city with these artistic and urban winks...

Large, colourful, and always busy even under the dark clouds, the commercial port is the epicentre of Brest life. Whether you descend on foot from Cours Dajot by taking the huge stairs or take a ride in the car driving along the castle, the landscape is unique. Meeting points, the Irish pubs that are located at the entrance to the port have their rooms always full day and night. When it comes to the many restaurants which have been implanted there for a long time, their tables are constantly occupied at lunchtime. But the port is also a place of Sunday walk that is even busier since the inauguration of Marina du Château! As you walk around on the "port de co", you can enjoy some old riggings on stopover, such as the Recouvrance or the Abeille Bourbon, the impressive tugboat that is always ready to go and help ships in distress. Note: it's on its quays that, every summer, Thursday evenings are animated by the sound of "Jeudis du port", which is a free artistic event, open to all and extremely popular, in the heart of which street arts and varied concerts mix.

City of Art and History, Quimper is also a green city where there are many natural spaces. It is around these gardens that the tourist office has set up a new discovery circuit called My city is a garden. The circuit starts in the retreat Garden and Garden of Peace. Here you will find trees and plants from all over the world! You will then follow the course from the Odet to the Theatre Garden, before leaving the centre to go to the Priory Garden. Other green spaces, such as the woods of Mount Frugy (where you can admire an overview on Quimper), the wild spaces of the St. Lawrence River and the park of Creac'h Gwen surround the city, but it will take a good day to explore them.

Tariff: the brochure is visible free of charge on the Office's website; the paper version is available free of charge at the tourist office.

Duration: 2 h; However, time passes quickly if you want to visit the parks in depth, so plan to segment the walk so that you don't have to hurry.

Difficulty: .

City of legends, Quimper sheltered many illustrious characters: kings, princesses, browsers, robbers, scientists… These are all stories that still speak of walls and monuments, which take life to the stories of these adventures. This is what the tour My City is proposing is a legend. From St. Corentin Cathedral, the legend of King Graldon, founder of the city, will be told. The saints will then be presented before passing through the beautiful quimperk residences to reach Max Jacob's birthplace. Finally, you will discover the places of penance and their secrets, finally a discovery of the legends of the Odet.

Tariff: the circuit and comments are available free of charge on the Internet, or in paper form at the Tourist Office.

Duration: 2 h.

Difficulty: easy.