Travel Guide Caulnes

This town of Des, which has close to 2 300 inhabitants, is located east of the Côtes d'Armor department and the border of Ille-et-Vilaine. Mention is made of the presence in the fourth century of a Roman habitat discovered in 1862 and the existence of an ancient Roman route crossing the territory of the locality to link the ancient city of Corseul to Duretie - the Roche Bernard. The parish of Caulnes also appears in the th and th centuries in the charters of Saint-Magloire de Léhon and Boquen. It is an old town of the Breton bocage, whose weapons borrowed from the family of Saint-Pern were painted in 1885 in the General Council Hall of the former prefecture. It is worth recalling a specificity of the economic life of yesteryear with the exploitation of ardoisières and the existence of numerous mills and tanneries. But it is the railway station, with the activity of its train station and goods that has long identified and distinguished the town of Caulnes of the surrounding communes. 22 km from Dinan, 45 km from Rennes, 59 km from Saint-Brieuc, on the outskirts of Rennes/Saint-Brieuc (RN 12) and the valley of Upper Rance. This Channel-Ocean link is a regional axis of the first importance.