SAINT-MALO What are the best things to do in town?

 

HIGHEST TIDES IN EUROPE

Saint-Malo has highest tides in Europe, and during GSI’23, we will have highest 2023 Saint-Malo tides of the year with a tide coefficient of 112 (13,33 meters of marling): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMyXCJ1Z7LA

You will attend the 1st lodges for these highest tides of the year from the “Palais du Grand Large” GSI’23 conference center. For people staying during the week-end, they could see highest 2023 tides at Mont-Saint-Michel (45 minutes from Saint-Malo) or visit Dinard (just in front of Saint-Malo) and French Britany Emeraude coast.

Enjoy French Brittany.

SOME OTHER COOL THINGS TO DO

Dinard
Across from Saint-Malo, on left bank of the Rance, Dinard has been given the epithet the “Nice of the North” for its stately atmosphere. On the way you may be intrigued to know that the bridge that crosses the Rance estuary also houses Europe’s first tidal power plant, built in 1966 and still working.
Fort-National
The engineering mastermind Vauban drew up plans for this forward bastion on the Îlette rock at the western end of Plage du Sillon. It bears his tell-tale star configuration and was the final piece in Saint-Malo’s defensive puzzle, conceived to protect the city from the British navy. It did just this job in 1693 when it helped to fend off an Anglo-Dutch attack. Much later it became a makeshift prison for the German forces in the last days of their occupation in 1944. The fortress is open in the summer for tours, and is a perfect document of 17th-century military design.
Old Saint-Malo
With grey granite as the their material, Saint-Malo’s houses have a distinguished air that borders on severe, but is always beautiful. The “Intra-Muros” district is all cobblestone streets with bars, restaurants, upmarket shops and crêperies, and exploring is the name of the game. The sense of the city’s venerability is so strong that it almost seems impossible that most of Saint-Malo needed to be restored after 1944.
Plage du Sillon
One of those dynamic beaches in a constant state of flux, Plage du Sillon is three kilometres of fine sand beginning just north of the walled city. This makes for easy strolling at any time of year, to work up an appetite and see the kites at low tide. On gentle summer days families come for the smooth sand and can bathe in the shallow rock pools on the western edge by Fort National.
Saint-Malo Walls
The ramparts protect the entirety of the old part of Saint-Malo and from a circuit of 1.75 kilometres. They were started in the 1100s, updated to combat new military technology in the 1600s and then expanded again up to the mid-18th century. Go up for panoramas of the sea, the Grand Bé island, Fort National, Dinard across the water and the magnificent granite homes of the city’s wealthy ship-owners.