Introducing St-Malo
The mast-filled port of St-Malo has a cinematically changing landscape. With one of the world’s highest tidal ranges, brewing storms under blackened skies see waves lash over the top of the ramparts ringing its walled city. Hours later, the blue sky merges with the deep marine-blue sea, exposing beaches as wide and flat at the clear skies above and creating land bridges to its granite outcrop islands.
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Construction of the walled city’s fortifications began in the 12th century. The town became a key port during the 17th and 18th centuries as a base for both merchant ships and government-sanctioned privateers (pirates, basically) against the constant threat of the English. These days English arrivals are tourists, for whom St-Malo, a short ferry hop from the Channel Islands, is a summer haven.
Last updated: Mar 2, 2009
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