Resort Saint Pol de Léon
Booking your holiday at the sea to Saint Pol de Léon. Saint Pol de Léon with its 7500 inhabitants is indisputably one of the most delightful and picturesque towns in Brittany. Located on the coast of the North Finistère, it presents a charming haven, very popular in the summer. Open to the sea, Saint Pol de Léon also is one of the towns in Brittany which possesses the most prominent religious features. Cathedral town until the French revolution, she has kept a unique architecture, namely a XIII century cathedral and an 80 meters high chapel which is the highest in Brittany. St Pol de Léon also is a town firmly turned towards the future. First vegetables producer and market garden of Brittany, it exports tens of thousands of vegetables to the whole of Europe every year. Scattered over 13 kilometres of coast line, some of the beaches, creeks and strands of St Pol de Léon have names of pieces of poetry: "Tahiti", le "Petit-Nice", "Sainte-Anne"... The walker discovers them from the panoramic viewpoint of the "Champ de la Rive" municipal park, which is overhung by a mission cross erected in 1901. The panorama is grandiose and most certainly one of the most exceptional in the North-Finistère: the panoramic view embraces many features. The Sainte-Anne islet a listed natural site and hermitage of the White Friars until the 18 century, the gigantic rock on the site, was once armed with powerful cannons. The "Castle of Taureau" built by Francois 1er and fortified by Vauban ; the wild rocks of Primel ; the coast of Lannion and the harmonious group of islands called the "Sept-Iles".