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Saint-Malo was rebuilt over a 12-year period from 1948 to 1960. It is a subprefecture of the Ille-et-Vilaine. The commune of Saint-Servan was merged with Paramé, and became the commune of Saint-Malo in 1967. Saint-Malo was the site of an Anglo-French summit in 1998 that led to a significant agreement regarding European defence policy.
The arrondissement of Saint-Malo is an arrondissement of France in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in the Brittany region. It has 68 communes . [ 2 ] Its population is 172,030 (2021), and its area is 1,070.6 km 2 (413.4 sq mi).
Map showing the advance of US Army units into Brittany and the locations of German positions in August 1944. As part of the preparations for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, Saint-Malo was identified by the Allied planners as one of several minor ports on the French Atlantic coast that could be used to land supplies for the Allied ground forces in France.
Unlike the rest of France and Brittany, Lower Brittany (roughly, west of a boundary from Saint Brieuc to Vannes) has maintained a distinctly Celtic language, Breton, which is related to Cornish and Welsh. It was the dominant language in Lower, or western, Brittany until the mid-20th century.
Saint-Malo-de-Phily (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ malo də fili]; Breton: Sant-Maloù-Fili) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. It is about 25 km south of Rennes.
Dol-de-Bretagne is situated in the northern part of the Ille-et-Vilaine department, 6 km from the English Channel coast and 22 km southeast of Saint-Malo. Dol-de-Bretagne station is served by high speed trains to Rennes and Paris, and regional trains to Saint-Malo, Saint-Brieuc, Granville and Rennes.
Saint-Malo-de-Beignon (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ malo də bɛɲɔ̃], literally Saint-Malo of Beignon; Breton: Sant-Maloù-Benion) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France. [3] Inhabitants of Saint-Malo-de-Beignon are called in French Maloins.
The Gulf of Saint-Malo is a part of the south-western English Channel between Brittany, Normandy, and the Channel Islands.. Formed by subsidence and flooding of a continental zone of about 8 500 km2, it extends from the Bréhat archipelago in the west to Guernsey and Alderney in the north and to the west coast of Cotentin (Normandy) in the east.