A Travellers Guide to Brittany
In 56 BCE, Julius Caesar and his Roman army conquered the peninsula and named it Armorica (a Roman spin on the Celt word for seaside).
Welcome to historic Brittany
Brittany is the verdant north-west corner of France, an undulating peninsula flanked by the Atlantic Ocean.
You may well ask “is Brittany in Northern France?” Fringed by the Atlantic, Brittany lies south of the English Channel and north of the Bay of Biscay. The region’s islands include popular Belle Ile and Ile d’Ouessant.
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