Normandy & Brittany - Discover France: Experience the Best of France - page 285

Rennes

Top Sights

Cathédrale St-Pierre A3

Musée des Beaux Arts D4

Palais du Parlement de Bretagne C2

Sleeping

1 Hôtel de Nemours C4

2 Hôtel des Lices B2

Eating

3 Café Babylone A3

4 La Ville d'Ys D2

5 Le Café Breton A3

6 Léon le Cochon D4

Sights

CATHÉDRALE ST-PIERRE
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Cathedral

( 9.30am-noon & 3-6pm) Crowning the old city is the 17th-century cathedral,
which has an impressive, if rather dark, neoclassical interior. Much of the surround-
ing old town was gutted by the great fire of 1720, started by a drunken carpenter
who accidentally set alight a pile of shavings. Half-timbered houses that survived
line the old city's cobbled streets such as nearby rue St-Michel and rue St-Georges.

PALAIS DU PARLEMENT DE BRETAGNE
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Law Courts

(place du Parlement de Bretagne) This 17th-century former seat of the rebellious
Breton parliament has in more recent times been home to the Palais de Justice. In
1994 this building, too, was destroyed by fire, started by demonstrating fishermen.