TWO-THOUSAND YEARS OLD RENNES

Rennes, a city two thousand years old with a heritage that stands among France’s most beautiful and varied, where coloured half-timbered houses from the XVth to XVIIth centuries rub shoulders with civil and religious palaces dating back to the Middle Ages and to the Ancien Régime, the wondrous gardens of the Bühler brothers.

SEAT OF BRITTANY’S PARLIAMENT

Rennes, seat of Brittany’s Parliament, magnificently restored, at the very heart of a new city of the XVIIIth century, built around two royal squares.
Rennes, one of France’s most dynamic metropolis, a city that matters in Europe, the smallest city in the world with a fully-automated subway!

CITY PLEASURES

A simple, beautiful name to qualify the object of Urban Tourism, to remind you of the basic comeback in the demand for urban destinations. What visitors look for in a city is its identity, its difference when compared to others, expressions of its inhabitants’ genius, yesteryear’s and today’s, which is embodied in its history, heritage and activities!
An of times arduous quest when undertaken without a guide. To allow you to understand and live this “capital city” which is Brittany’s Rennes, the fresh, young urban community of Métropolis Rennes, is the raison d’être of this site.

CULTURAL EVENTS

A cinema festival in February, followed by a story-telling festival in April, the Dusk Festival of July, Street Kids in October, Western Jazz in November and the Transmusical in December... All of these milestone events prove how rich Rennes’ cultural life is...

NIGHT LIFE

With its lively student body, Rennes invites you to relax around a glass and take in a show or a movie. Your musical and cinematographic thirst will doubtless be quenched by the numerous cultural facilities.
Yes, Rennes also excels in its night life!