Vannes and its essentials

Visit Vannes and discover its cobbled streets and many monuments steeped in history!

Vannes and its essentials

Vannes is a city with a great cultural and historical heritage.

Enjoy your stay at the campsite, to visit the city and its various monuments which are mostly classified historical monuments.

You will be able to discover:

 
• city walls that reveal more than 1,500 years of military history;

 

• The Constable’s Tower , residence for the Chief of the Armed Forces;

 

• the laundry of the Garenne located below the ramparts;

 

• the prison gate which was a place of confinement in the 18th century;

 

• the prestigious Porte Saint-Vincent open on the port and the Place Gambetta ;

 

• the port bears witness to the maritime trade of yesteryear which is now a marina;

 

• the Saint-Patern district where sits the beautiful Saint-Patern church ;

 

• the Cohue which sheltered the markets and which today is an exhibition place of the Museum of Fine Arts of Vannes;

 

• the Saint-Pierre Cathedral must-see monument that dominates the closed city;

 

• the Château-Gaillard which today houses the medieval and Gallo-Roman collections of the history museum;

 

• the mansions in white stones and granite;

 

• the prefecture inaugurated under Napoleon III.