Concarneau, France Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

The first sizeable town you come to east of Bénodet is CONCARNEAU , where the third most important fishing port in France does a reasonable job of passing itself off as a holiday resort. Its greatest asset is its Ville Close , the small and very well-fortified old city located a few metres offshore on an irregular rocky island in the bay. This can get too crowded for comfort in high summer, but otherwise it's a real delight. Like those of the citadelle at Le Palais on Belle-Île, its ramparts were completed by Vauban in the seventeenth century. The island itself, however, had been inhabited for at least a … more »