Itinerary · Bretagne
Saint-Malo in 3 Days: Museums and Privateer History
A three-day stay in the privateer city, between the château of the Dukes of Brittany, shipowners' townhouses, and museums devoted to Jacques Cartier, Cape Horn sailors and the Terre-Neuvas cod fishermen — at the pace of one or two stops a day, without leaving the ramparts.
3 days · 5 stops · Quick stop
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Overview
Numbers follow the order of the route, day by day — the dashed line is indicative, not a precise driving route.
Day 1
Intramuros Saint-Malo, city of privateers
First stop in the château of the Dukes of Brittany, now home to the city's history museum, tracing the great privateering era and the rise of the seaside town — then a 17th-century townhouse recounting the eventful lives of the shipowners and captains who built Saint-Malo's fortune.
Inside the Dukes' castleMuseum · Saint-Malo
Musée d'histoire de la ville et d'ethnographie du pays malouin
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17th-century shipowner's houseMuseum · Saint-Malo
La Demeure de Corsaire
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Day 2
Jacques Cartier and the deep-sea captains
Two museums devoted to Saint-Malo's great voyages: first the house where Jacques Cartier prepared his 1534 departure for Canada, then the museum of Cape Horn sailors, devoted to the crews who once rounded the Horn under sail.
Departure for Canada, 1534Museum · Saint-Malo
Musée Jacques Cartier
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Cape Horn sailorsMuseum · Saint-Malo
Musée du long-cours cap-hornier
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Day 3
Terre-Neuvas, cod fishing
Final stop tracing the Terre-Neuvas, the Saint-Malo fishermen who sailed each spring to fish for cod off Newfoundland for months at a time — before heading onward, or taking the boat across to Dinard, just opposite.
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