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Baie de Douarnenez is one of France’s great natural sites — bring good shoes and a camera. Locate it on the map, book a room nearby in a click, or add it to your travel list to build your itinerary.
About Baie de Douarnenez
Cradled by the peninsulas of western Finistère, the Baie de Douarnenez is a wide, luminous bay wrapped in Breton legend — for beneath its waters, the tale says, lies the drowned city of Ys, swallowed by the sea for its sins. Around its curve lie sandy beaches, dramatic cliffs, the wild Cap de la Chèvre on the Crozon peninsula and the old sardine port of Douarnenez, whose canning history is celebrated in a fine maritime museum. Sheltered yet open to Atlantic light, the bay is loved for sailing, sea-kayaking, coastal walking and beach days. Framed by two of Brittany's most beautiful headlands and steeped in myth and maritime tradition, the Baie de Douarnenez is a quintessential slice of the wild Finistère coast.