Activities and tours

marais salants de Guérande au coucher du soleil

Here you can relax, in a peaceful neighbourhood, a spacious and comfy house and a pleasant garden.
Between land and sea, our house is ideally located to walk or ride and to discover this awesome region, especially the famous salt marshes, the beautiful Brière nature reserve and Guérande, city of Art and History.
You’ll have access to a lot of various opportunities to cover all your desires: nature, culture, relaxation, sport, festivities…
There is a lot of ways to discover our region’s treasures, like walking and cycling trails, and ferries.

Benefit from a wide cycle network ner the house, like the véloute V45 Vélocéan, and a lot of trails to walk peacefully, like the sentier des douaniers or the Tour de Brière.

In Saint-Molf

  • Tourism information at the town hall (mairie)
  • Walk trails
  • Orientation course, crosses and calvaries course
  • Market
  • Salt producer, salt workers’ villages (Boulay, Pendhué)
  • Wood turner
  • Ceramist
  • Permaculture garden’s tour and workshops L’île Jardin de Kervolan
  • Events
  • Library
  • Playgrounds
  • Pubs/restaurants
  • Leisure parks (climbing, treetop adventure, mini golf, laser game, paintball…)
  • Brière park within walking distance

Closest beaches

  • Sorlock (Pointe de Merquel), 6km
  • Lanséria (Quimiac), 5.6km
  • Swimming pool in Guérande, 10km
  • Ice rink in Piriac during the Christmas period
  • Saltworks, salt sheds, guided tours, little train, shops (salt, salicornia)
  • Salt workers’ traditional villages (Boulay, Pendhué, Saillé, Clis, Kervarin, Kercabellec, Rostu, Penlô, Trescalan…)
  • Marshes, canals, reed beds
  • Picturesque villages, thatched cottages, port of Bréca, crosses, old bread ovens, mills
  • Guided tours in a barge (chaland), ornithology, bike rental, events and workshops, Krapados’ treasure hunt, wild cooking workshops by Entre Sel et Tourbe
  • Visits : museum village of Kerhinet, Rozé belvedere, Pierre Constant site, The Maiden’s House (Maison de la Mariée), Ranrouët castle, The Brière’s thatched cottage (La Chaumière Briéronne), Kerbourg dolmens, Eleonore’s pathways (Les Chemins d’Eléonore)

Along the shore

  • Beaches, coves (Pierre Plate, Guec, Convert…), wild coast (Penestin coasts, Mine d’Or beach’s ochre cliffs, Croisic coast, Pouliguen caves, pointe du Castelli, pointe de Merquel, heath of Pen Bé…), naturist beach (Pen Bron)
  • Picturesque harbours (Kercabellec, Piriac, La Turballe, Le Croisic, Pouliguen…)
  • Bird watching, Traict du Rostu
  • Guided tours
  • Water sports (diving, sailing, surfing, kite surfing, kayaking…)

Offshore

  • Houat, Hoëdic and Belle-île-en-Mer islands (crossing from La Turballe)
  • Old sailing boat cruise (Pouliguen)

Inland

  • Forests (La Baule-Escoublac)
  • Rivers
  • MTB
  • Rock climbing
  • Canoe kayaking

Remarkable cities and villages

  • Guérande, a fortified medieval city, a must-see historical gem, with towers and ramparts, lively markets, French crepes and night illuminations
  • Piriac-sur-Mer
  • Baie de La Baule
  • Rochefort-en-Terre
  • Nantes

Visits

  • Guérande : History museum, Salt workers’ House (Maison des Paludiers), Terre de Sel
  • Batz-sur-Mer : salt marshes museum
  • Saint Nazaire : EOL wind center, Écomusée, Tumulus de Dissignac…
  • Nantes : discovery trail Le voyage à Nantes, Trentemoult village, Jardin des Plantes (botanic garden), Machines de l’Île, passage Pommeraye, Abolition of slavery Memorial, Art museum, printing museum
  • Saint-Jean-La-Poterie : potters, trail, Le Patiau ceramic history and art center

Events

  • Potters’ market, Herbignac (weekend of the Ascension)
  • Medieval festival of Guérande (first weekend of June)
  • Festi’Vent (kites’ festival), La Turballe (end of June)
  • Farmers’ market, Kerhinet (every Thursday in Summer)
  • L’art au gré des chapelles (art exhibitions in chapels, in September)
  • Festival of the Sea, Mesquer (mid September)
  • Saveurs d’octobre (cooking workshops in October)
  • Turb’Halloween, La Turballe (31st of October)
  • Christmas festival, La Turballe (Christmas period)