Le Palais Review

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Le Palais

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At 18 km (11 mi) long, Belle-Ile is the largest of Brittany's islands. It also lives up to its name: it's indeed beautiful, and less commercialized than its mainland harbor town, Quiberon. Because of the cost and inconvenience of reserving car berths on the ferry, cross over to the island as a pedestrian and rent a car—or, if you don't mind the hilly terrain, a bicycle. Departing from Quiberon—a spa town with pearl-like beaches on the eastern side of the 16-km-long (10-mi-long) Presqu'île de Quiberon (Quiberon Peninsula), a stretch of coastal cliffs and beaches whose dramatic western coast, the Côte Sauvage (Wild Coast), is a mix of crevices and coves lashed by the sea—the ferry lands at Le Palais, crushed beneath a monumental Vauban citadel built in the 1680s.

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