Saint-Malo is a walled port city in Brittany in northern France on the English Channel.
During the Middle Age Saint-Malo was a fortified island at the mouth of the Rance River,
controlling the estuary and the open sea beyond. The promontory fort of Aleth, south of the
modern centre in what is now the Saint-Servan district, commanded approaches to the Rance River.
In the later centuries it became notorious as the home of a fierce breed of pirate-mariners,
who were never quite under anyone's control but their own; for four years from 1590, Saint-Malo
even declared itself to be an independent republic, taking up the motto "not French, not Breton,
but Malois".Now inseparably attached to the mainland, Saint-Malo is one of the most visited
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The origins of Dol-en-Bretagne date, almost certainly, from Celtic times,
and in the VI century it became the establishment of one of the first bishops in Brittany.
Saint-Samson’s Cathedral was built in granite fro the XII through the XIII century. It
contains the tombs of Saint Samson and Saint Magloire. |
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