Brest maritime - Tourism Brest Metropole

Look at the ocean

Brest Maritime!

Parade in the heart of Brest

A bustling city

Cultural Brest

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A promontory on the sea

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Brest maritime - Tourism Brest Metropole
A large protected navigable expanse

Brest harbour!

The harbor is a great playground for nautical activities, but also for scallop fishing.

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Rade de Brest - Tourism Brest Metropole
Discover Brest by sea

A trip to the harbour

Nous vous proposons la plus belle manière d’en observer toute la beauté et la diversité de ses paysages. Plusieurs prestataires proposent des croisières en rade. Originale, la croisière gourmande : des huîtres, du vin blanc et une magnifique balade en bateau !

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Venez vivre les Fêtes maritimes de Brest

du 12 au 17 juillet

Tous les 4 ans, Brest devient le plus grand port du monde!

Découvrez des milliers de bateaux d’hier et d’aujourd’hui et célébrez la mer au cœur d’animations qui vous plongeront dans une ambiance inoubliable!

Brest Maritime Festival
Fêtes Maritimes Brest, brest tourisme
Fêtes Maritimes Internationales - Brest 2016 - la grande parade entre Brest et Douarnenez
Culture in our daily lives

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Parade in the heart of Brest
Events for everyone

Events for everyone

Brest boasts a dense, high-quality cultural life, thanks to its facilities and talented, professional artists. Here, culture is built and grows every day, thanks to the abundance of events on offer through the many music, film, dance and book festivals...

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A culture to share

In Brest, culture is multifaceted: heritage, art, museums, the streets - but above all, it's shared! Here, walls speak, heritage is lived, historic pieces take their place in public places...

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street art brestois
Oceanology-themed urban fresco at 195 rue Anatole France, Rive-Droite district

Street art in Brest

A pioneer in street art, Brest has seen the birth of many names in the discipline. Discover another way to explore Brest through its street art.

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Brest Métropole :

Brest Métropole: intense, maritime and Breton!

At the tip of Brittany, Brest is a resolutely modern, dynamic city in perpetual motion. It's the only place where urban effervescence rubs shoulders with the slow living of the sea, where you can go from a suit and tie on the tramway to a wetsuit and paddle in less than 30 minutes. Only here can you go jogging on the seafront after a day's toil in the city. Brest is also about the future, with an intense scientific culture directly linked to the sea, and real concerns for tomorrow's environmental issues.

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To experience Brest

A promontory overlooking the sea, Brest is a perfect blend of urban character and maritime culture. Nautical activities, cruises on the harbor, visits to museums and gardens, family leisure activities, hiking on the GR34 and exceptional natural sites are all concentrated within the same perimeter. Brest also cultivates its Breton identity through its many maritime events, its gastronomy and its sense of celebration.

Your inspiration at Brest Métropole

Ocean Immersion

Setting sail

Discover the harbour on a paddle

The lighthouse route from Brest

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The essentials for discovering Brest!

Brest can be discovered, but above all Brest can be experienced and felt. The atmosphere of the Saint-Louis market, the liveliness of the café terraces, the atmosphere of its marinas, a late day around the Château or its artistic life... Discover a thousand and one ways to experience the city and its metropolis like a true Brestois and discover this little piece of Finistère.

Brest, the last metropolis before America

Located on the tip of Finistère, Brest looks like a city at the end of the world, and this is perhaps what gives it its unique character, where everything is experienced more intensely. Yet Brest remains connected to the major French cities by rail, road and air, making it a destination of choice for both short and long stays.

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