Brittany holiday cottages & farmhouses
Holiday homes in France - Brittany (Brest)
Much of the regions charm lies in its Celtic culture and that is has some of France’s finest coastal scenery. Brittany boasts dozens of classic seaside resorts and offers some of the best yachting, windsurfing and coastal hiking in France.
The region enjoys a gentle warm climate due to a warm ocean current flowing from the Gulf of Mexico towards northwest Europe. As a result there are warm summers, but not to warm and mild winters.
Brittany is located on the peninsula that extends about 150 miles into the Atlantic, in the extreme northwest of France, and separates the English Channel from the Bay of Biscay.
Brittany’s coast is both rugged and indented. Composed of rocky land in the north and sandy, sun swept beaches in the south, the jagged, 750 mile long coastline is twice as long as it would be if it were not jagged. Doted with small and picturesque fishing villages, much of the coastline, especially at the western tip of Brittany, is characterized by cliffs, capes, islands, rocks and reefs. The coast is at its most beautiful at high tide, and the difference between high tide and low tide is among the world’s greatest – up to 49 feet.