Ille-et-Vilaine: Rennes, Saint-Malo, and Breton Growth
Ille-et-Vilaine centres on Rennes, the capital of Brittany and one of France's fastest-growing cities. The population exceeds 1.1 million. Rennes has two universities with over 60,000 students, giving it one of the highest student-to-resident ratios in France. The Saturday morning market at Place des Lices is one of the largest in the country.
Saint-Malo, on the department's northern coast, is a walled port city famous for its corsaire (privateer) history, its intra-muros old town rebuilt stone by stone after 1944 destruction, and as the starting point of the Route du Rhum transatlantic sailing race. Vitre and Fougeres have well-preserved medieval castles. The department straddles the boundary between coastal and inland Brittany; the north is maritime, the south agricultural.
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Ille-et-Vilaine centres on Rennes, the capital of Brittany and one of France's fastest-growing cities. The population exceeds 1.1 million. Rennes has two universities with over 60,000 students, giving it one of the highest student-to-resident ratios in France. The Saturday morning market at Place des Lices is one of the largest in the country.
Saint-Malo, on the department's northern coast, is a walled port city famous for its corsaire (privateer) history, its intra-muros old town rebuilt stone by stone after 1944 destruction, and as the starting point of the Route du Rhum transatlantic sailing race. Vitre and Fougeres have well-preserved medieval castles. The department straddles the boundary between coastal and inland Brittany; the north is maritime, the south agricultural.
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