SARL Trains touristiques F. Le Bayon
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Description of circuit
1 Departures and arrivals place Gambetta in front of the quay at Vannes.
2 Passage through the "St Vincent" door (XVIIIth century).
4 The "Poterne" door and onthe left : the wonderfull washhouses.
5 The ramparts of the old town.
7 The administration center for the country of Morbihan, Louis XIII style - built in the XIXth century.
8 Return to the old town by the Prison door.
This doorway is called so, after the french Revolution.It was a remarquable
example of a fortified door, and it works with a double drawbridge mechanism.
9The cathedral of Vannes, built in granit is a
composite edifice. Most of it dates from the 15th and 16th centuries
(nave and north transept)
The north tower is the vestige of a roman edifice, the vaults and
the chancel date from the XVIIth century and the face from 1857.
10 Vannes and his wife : A granit sculpture decorates a prestigeous building from the XVIth century. Local traditions have baptised these two jovial caracters "Vannes and his wife".
