The port city of Saint-Malo on the Emerald Coast

2 April 2012 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

Port of Sablons © Pline

Port of Sablons © Pline

Saint-Malo is a walled port city in Brittany in northwestern France on the English Channel. It is a sub-prefecture of the Ille-et-Vilaine. The population can increase to up to 200,000 in the summer tourist season. With the suburbs included, the population is about 135,000. The population of the commune more than doubled in 1968 with the merging of three communes: Saint-Malo, Saint-Servan (population 14,963 in 1962), and Paramé (population 8811 in 1962). Inhabitants of Saint-Malo are called Malouins in French.   read more…

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