city / town
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A stone crown atop the waves" was how Chateaubriand described the Ville Close of the old corsair town of Saint-Malo, completely surrounded by water. From its fortified walls the old town offers a spectacular view of the town and the sea with its offshore islands.
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For a tour through chocolate stores, pastry shops, bakeries and cafes you'll need a good stomach as well as some money to splurge on swee...
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Saint-Malo (in Brittany Sant-Malou, in Saent cock-Malo, Saint Malo in ancient Italian) is a French and a sub-prefecture (district of Saint-Malo), the capital of two cantons (north and south) of the French department of Ille -et-Vilaine region of Brittany. It is a famous seaside resort, especially eventful summer, and attracts tourists in ascending (mostly British, German, Dutch). It is a coastal city, fortified with a belt of bastions. Its port flows into the English Channel and its coastline is among those most exposed to the French phenomenon of the tides (the width exceeds 10 meters). The inhabitants of Saint-Malo called "maluini", in French: malouins. The Breton language, which is part of the Celtic languages, has never been spoken. Instead, the language used was the rooster, or a neo-Latin dialect of the eastern part of Britain. Both the cock, both Breton can be studied in universities today Breton. Saint-Malo is named after a Welsh monaco, Mac Low, landed on the peninsula of Aleth (or Alet) in the sixth century to evangelize the country, and became bishop of Aleth. The city of Aleth, the Gallo-Roman times, was the headquarters of the Legion of Mars and was destroyed
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