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Brittany (/ ˈ b r ɪ t ən i / BRIT-ən-ee; French: Bretagne, pronounced ⓘ; Breton: Breizh, pronounced [bʁɛjs, bʁɛx]; [1] [dubious – discuss] Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn, pronounced [bəʁtaɛɲ]) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.
Other important cities in the region are Brest, one of the two most important French naval ports, Saint-Malo, an imposing walled city on the north coast, and Vannes, the capital of the Morbihan, with an attractive old town centre. Quimper, the capital of the Finistère, and Saint-Brieuc, the capital of the Côtes-d'Armor, are less important.
Brest (French pronunciation: [bʁɛst] ⓘ; [ 3 ]Breton pronunciation: [bʀest] [ 4 ]) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of a peninsula and the western extremity of metropolitan France, [ 5 ] Brest is an important harbour and the second largest French military port ...
Map of Lorient Lorient is located on the south coast of Brittany , where the rivers Scorff and Blavet join to form the roadstead of Lorient , before discharging into the Atlantic Ocean . The river Ter used to flow into the estuary to the south of the city, however, a dam was constructed in 1967, stopping the flow.
Map of the Brittany destination and its 10 structuring areas, as defined by Atout France. The Brittany region shares competence in the field of tourism with its constituent départements. [53] It has a vice-president dedicated to this issue, [54] and an operational department, the Comité Régional de Tourisme de Bretagne. [55]
Finistère is the westernmost department of Metropolitan France and can also claim to be the "most coastal" department in Metropolitan France. Of its 277 communes, 117 are located on the coast. Its total coastline of approximately 1,250 km (776.71 mi) accounts for almost a quarter of the entire Brittany coast-line. Map of Finistère
0–56 m (0–184 ft) (avg. 22 m or 72 ft) 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Vannes (French pronunciation: [van] ⓘ; Breton: Gwened, pronounced [ˈɡweːnet], [ˈɡɥeːnet]) is a commune in the French department of Morbihan, Brittany, northwestern ...
Roscoff (/ ˈrɒskoʊ /, from Breton: Rosko; French pronunciation: [ʁɔskɔf]) is a commune in the Finistère département of Brittany in northwestern France. Roscoff is renowned for its picturesque architecture, labelled petite cité de caractère de Bretagne (small town of character) [ 3 ] since 2009. Roscoff is also a traditional departure ...