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Rochers Scuptés de Rothéneuf 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 Rochers Scuptés de Rothéneuf
On the rocky coast between Saint-Malo and Cancale, the Rochers sculptés de Rothéneuf are one of France's most extraordinary works of outsider art — a jumble of some three hundred figures carved directly into the granite of the foreshore. Between 1894 and 1907 a solitary, partly paralysed priest, the Abbé Fouré, spent his days chiselling this teeming population of monsters, sea-creatures, saints and a legendary local clan of pirates into the living rock above the waves. Weathered now by more than a century of Atlantic storms, the faces and forms emerge dreamlike from the stone, gazing out to sea. Strange, moving and utterly unique, the carved rocks of Rothéneuf are an unmissable curiosity of the Breton coast — the life's work of one obsessive, gifted hermit.