Dinan
Dinan is a walled Breton town and a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in northwestern France.
Dinan is a walled Breton town and a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in northwestern France. On 1 January 2018, the former commune of Léhon was merged into Dinan.
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Worth seeing in and around Dinan
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Château de Dinan
The Château de Dinan, also known as Dinan Castle, consists of a keep, in the town of Dinan, in the Côtes-d'Armor département of the Brittany region of France.
700 m · castle in France · Wikipedia - 02canal d'Ille-et-Rance
The Canal d'Ille-et-Rance is a 79 km long canal in northwestern France connecting Dinan to the Vilaine at Rennes, thus forming part of the English Channel/Atlantic Ocean link which has long been used by yachtsmen, but has also become increasingly popular as a cruising waterway in its own right. It takes its name from the rivers Ille and Rance.
5.2 km · canal · Wikipedia - 03Basilique Saint-Sauveur de Dinan
The Basilica of Saint-Sauveur de Dinan is a Roman Catholic church situated in Dinan, France. Historically, it is one of the two parish churches in the town, the other being Saint Malo's church.
600 m · basilica located in Côtes-d'Armor, in France · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Dinan Castle
Place du Guesclin,.
- 02Railway Museum
Gare de Dinan, 20 Place Duclos (Entrance inside the railway station),.
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Things to do
Fête des Remparts. July (2023: 22-23 July). It involves everyone dressing up in medieval costume. Festival Bobital. June/July (2023: 30 June–2 July).
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Getting to Dinan
- Airports
- Nantes Atlantique (NTE), 149 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 175 km
- Stations
- Dinan station, 300 m
- Brest → Dinan1865 km · quickest by air, 13h 52m · $620–940
- Nantes → Dinan143 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · €16–23
- Beauvais → Dinan321 km · quickest by road, 5h 59m · €38–55
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No local-transport research exists yet for Dinan
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Dinan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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