The Romans named it Condate, meaning “confluence”, to emphasize the location of the city between the Ille and the Vilaine. From the Quai Saint-Cyr, the Bouroullec designers' belvedere has recently made it possible to measure its full extent, while the Vilaine, in the city center, is gradually resurfacing. Rennes rediscovers a treasure. But there are so many others, as Bretagne Magazine notes, on sale at newsagents or to be found online.
From the banks of the water to the Saint-Martin meadows, from the Oberthür park to the twin towers of the Horizons, from the built and urban heritage, in the open air, signed by the architect Georges Maillols to the works exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts or on the walls of the city, Rennes does not lack grandeur. A grandeur that we also find, moreover, nestled in the heart of more informal addresses: an Odorico bathroom in a restaurant, an exceptional altarpiece in the Treasury room of Saint-Pierre cathedral, a museum of the book hidden in a library…
The heritage of the Breton capital is impressively diverse, its chefs, starred or not, amaze with every menu, the programming of its cultural dens is ambitious, its music and its legendary activism still resonate as loudly as ever. Bretagne Magazine surveyed the favorite city of sausage pancakes, rock, Odorico mosaics and Coucou chicken, to reveal 28 of its treasures, well-known or more… unusual!
