Baie de Roscanvel et les ports de Brest

You’ll can understand the strategic place of the roadstead protected from the sea by the Quélern Peninsula and the Goulet passage large from 1,5 kms-3 kms.

Brest was ceded about 1240 by Count Hervé V of Léon to John I, duke of Brittany. The English occupied it from 1342 until 1397. By marriage it passed (1491) from Brittany to the French crown. Cardinal de Richelieu decided in 1631 to make it a major naval base. It was improved by Jean-Baptiste Colbert and fortified by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban.

You will continu your trip toward the bay of Roscanvel. At this place you can admirate 2 Islands (Treberon and the dead’s Island) who served to protect Brest from the virus when the seamens cames back from expeditions.