Vannes: History and Monuments
Vannes · France
- Audio guide
- 4 languages
- Offline
Walk through Vannes by its gates, walls, historic buildings, church and civic architecture. Notice how each stop preserves a different part of the city’s past, from fortified entrances to richly detailed façades. The route rewards you with close views of masonry, carved decoration and changing architectural styles. Allow time to pause at each monument and read the old city through what remains visible.
The walk
Stops 1–6 of 10. The rest are in the app.
Saint-Vincent Gate
A harbour gate rebuilt by tides, war, and Vannes’s devotion to Saint Vincent Ferrier.
Maison de Saint-Yves
A late-medieval timber house whose name is still an unsolved little mystery.
Calmont Gate
A late medieval gate marking Vannes’s great southern expansion under Duke John IV.
Château-Gaillard
A late-medieval hôtel particulier turned archaeological museum, with a very Breton paper trail.
Vannes and His Wife
A painted granite couple whose identities and original purpose remain unknown
Vannes city walls
A working defence that grew with Vannes, then was sold off, demolished, and rescued.
Stop 7
Stop 8
Stop 9
- 4 more stops in the app
Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places
More walks in Vannes
5 walks
How a walk works
4 more stops in the app
This page shows the first 6 of 10 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.
Pick a walk
Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.
Pocket your phone
Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.
Listen as you arrive
On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.
Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.
A guide who talks
Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.
The route, followed
A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.
In four languages
English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.
Or build your own
Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.
The unglamorous things
Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.
No signal needed
Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.
Picks up where you left off
Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.