SelectionThe Gustave apartment at the Hotel Edgar is ideally located for exploring the capital of Côtes-d’Armor, from the medieval center to the marina.
The Briochins still call it “the old police station”. Because, until the 2000s, this was the function of this granite building, built in the 19and century by a shipowner in the heart of the city. Three years ago, Maxime and Magali Jullien, a couple of hoteliers from the region, transformed the place into a 4-star hotel. The main building offers 27 modern rooms and suites, decorated by them.
The former motorcycle garage of the police officers has become the dining room, La Table d’Edgar, under a glass roof. Chef Sébastien David, who worked at the Parisian palace Le Bristol, stirs up scallops with shiitakes, sears langoustines with citrus butter and works the tuna into ceviche. The owners have also acquired the adjacent building, in which they have fitted out six apartments and a Cinq Mondes spa with sauna, hammam and balneotherapy.
On the third floor of this outbuilding, the Gustave apartment (about 50 square meters) consists of a double bedroom and a spacious living room with kitchenette overlooking the pedestrian center. The decoration is wise, the atmosphere soothing. A retro-inspired floral wallpaper brings a note of warmth to the sleeping area. The gulls pass in front of the windows according to their flights between the city and the bay. The beehives installed on the roof of the hotel provide the honey served at breakfast. It goes wonderfully with churned butter from Vieux-Bourg, made a few kilometers away.
Hotel Edgar, Gustave apartment, 15, rue Jouallan. From €147.
At 180 meters: go green
Aurore Graillat was an agricultural engineer when she decided to leave everything to devote herself to her passion for indoor plants and open La Végétalerie. In her 130 square meter shop, she offers more than a thousand tropical plants, as well as seeds and gardening accessories. A few tables allow you to have tea or enjoy a vegetable meal in the middle of monsteras, alocasias, ficus lyrata, yuccas and other cacti.
La Végétalerie, 1, rue de Rohan. Tuesday to Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
350 meters away: visit the fortified cathedral
Opposite the old fish markets, the Saint-Etienne cathedral surprises with its fortress-like appearance, a few steps from the oldest houses in the city. Built in granite stone between the XIIIand and the 19thand century, it is one of the few fortified churches in Brittany. Two massive towers pierced with loopholes frame the main entrance. It served as a place of worship as much as a refuge during the English and French invasions during the wars of succession of the Duchy of Brittany.
Saint-Etienne cathedral, General-de-Gaulle square. On weekends, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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