Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Brittany
Detourmap lists 297 places in Brittany, France, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Carnac stones. 286 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 297
- Oldest
- menhir d'Er Grah 5000 BC
- Little known
- 286 of 297
- Share of France
- 15%
Brittany 297
The 120 best known of 297. The other 177 are on the map and on the France pages.
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6.Mont-Saint-Michel Bay
Nature · Notable
Bay located between Brittany and the Normandy peninsula of Cotentin
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8.menhir d'Er Grah
Archaeological · 50th century BC · Notable
Large broken menhir in Locmariaquer, France
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16.Abbaye Saint-Mathieu de Fine-Terre
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Abbey located in Finistère, in France
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28.Temple of Mars, Corseul
Archaeological · 1st century · Hidden gem
Roman temple located in Côtes-d'Armor, in France
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31.Iroise National Nature Reserve
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
Protected natural habitat in France
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40.La Noce de Pierres
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Alignment of some 77 standing stones in Brittany, France
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41.Réserve naturelle nationale des Sept Îles
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
Protected area in France
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56.alignements de Kerbourgnec
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Archaeological site in Saint-Pierre-Quiberon, France
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107.Tumulus, quadrilatère et menhir de Manio
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Tumulus located in Morbihan, in France
Elsewhere in France
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Brittany?
Carnac stones. Stone rows in Carnac, France. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Brittany?
297: 273 archaeological & historic sites and 24 nature & landscapes. 286 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Brittany?
menhir d'Er Grah, dated to 5000 BC. 9 of the 297 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Brittany here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Brittany if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Brittany is a first-level division of France, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.