The Côtes-d'Armor, a department in northern Brittany, boasts a spectacular coastline along the English Channel, featuring pink granite cliffs stretching from the Bay of Saint-Brieuc to Cap Fréhel and its wild moors. This rugged and magnificent coastline mirrors the department’s castle heritage: massive, austere, carved from Breton granite, it imposes its presence upon landscapes of stark beauty.
The Château de la Roche-Jagu, a 15th-century fortress perched on the heights of the Trieux, offers a bird’s-eye view of the wooded estuary from its battlements. Fort-la-Latte, a granite sentinel standing at the tip of a promontory battered by the waves, is one of Brittany’s most photographed castles thanks to its dramatic position facing the sea. Tonquédec, the romantic ruins of a medieval fortress, and Quintin, a classical residence housing a collection of lace and porcelain, complete this diverse panorama.
The Côtes-d'Armor also boasts numerous rural manor houses and stately homes that bear witness to the wealth of the Breton aristocracy, who clung jealously to their privileges and lands right up until the Revolution.