Mansions and private mansions to visit Brittany

Hotel des Ducs de Bretagne, also called Maison du Chapeau Rouge (1572) is located around the Louis Guilloux square. This former Renaissance inn has fireproof walls and half-timbered sculptures in friezes: lion heads, helmeted reiters, ovum and gadroons. You can see a griffin, animal from Antiquity (half eagle-half lion) which has become the emblem of the town of Saint-Brieuc, it watches over the street and protects the inhabitants. According to legend, it is said to have housed famous and royal travellers, like Jacques II Stuart in 1689 or the great duke and the great duchess of Russia, in 1782. It is a private property.

Built in 1655 and located in the village of Scaër, rue Louis Pasteur, the manor of Stang-Audren was the residence in the nineteenth century of François Monjaret de Kerjégu. He added additional buildings to accommodate his domestic staff and horses. It was in 1950 that the old manor, renamed the "longer", was sold to the city. On its facade, you can notice small niches under the roof: this is a dodget!