Dinard tourism and travel guide

Visit Dinard: highlights and tourist information

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France This Way comment: Dinard, estblished as a fashionable resort in the 19th century, is still one of the nicest towns in Ille-et-Vilaine

Dinard is situated in the Ille-et-Vilaine department and Brittany region, in the north-west of France at 64 kilometres from Rennes, the department capital (general information: Dinard is 324 kilometres from Paris).

Tourist classifications for Dinard include "town of art and history" and "ville fleurie 4*".

Popular places to visit nearby include Dinard Pointe de la Malouine at 1 km and Emerald Coast at 4 km. For more places to visit and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.

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Dinard, France: places to visit and attractions

Some of the places that we have visited and reviewed and can recommend when you are sightseeing close to Dinard in Brittany.

Note that all distances below are 'direct' and real driving distances will be greater!

... or see ALL recommended places to visit in Ille-et-Vilaine

Map of places to visit near Dinard

Markets in and near Dinard

Market days in Dinard: weekly market: Wednesday & Tuesday & Thursday & Saturday;

• Dinard: market Wednesday & Tuesday & Thursday & Saturday (0km)
• Saint-Malo: market Wednesday & Tuesday & Thursday & Saturday & Friday (3km)
• Saint-Lunaire: market Sunday - seasonal market only (4km)
• Lancieux: market Tuesday & Tuesday (8km)
• Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer: market Friday (11km)
• Saint-Cast-le-Guildo: market Monday - seasonal market only (15km)
• Cancale: market Sunday (15km)
• Matignon: market Wednesday (18km)
• Plancoet: market Saturday (18km)
• Dinan: market Thursday (20km)

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Tourist attractions near Dinard, France

What to do at Dinard? Some places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Dinard.

Grand sites of France

• Cap d'Erquy / Cap Frehel (30km)
• Baie du Mont Saint-Michel (40km)

Heritage sites

• Mont-Saint-Michel (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (40km)

Recommended detour towns (fr: plus beau détour)

• Dinan (20km)
• Granville (40km)

Remarkable gardens

• Jardins de Montmarin (6km)
• Jardins du château de la Bourbansais (29km)
• Parc du château de Caradeuc (39km)
• Jardin du château de La Ballue (44km)
• Parc du château de Bonnefontaine (46km)

Sites of natural beauty

• Rance (fleuve) (1km)
• Embouchure - Rance (1km)
• Cézembre (5km)
• Îlots Notre-Dame et Chevret (6km)
• Pointe de la Varde (7km)
• Baie de Lancieux, baie de l'Arguenon, archipel de Saint-Malo et Dinard (8km)
• Havre de Rothéneuf (9km)
• Île Besnard (9km)
• Estuaire de la Rance (11km)
• Îlot de la Colombière (11km)
• Côte de Cancale à Paramé (13km)
• Île du Guesclin (13km)
• Île des Rimains (17km)
• Pointe du Grouin (18km)
• Île des Landes (18km)
• Cap Frehel (20km)
• Chausey (31km)
• Le Grand-Pourier (32km)
• Îlot du Verdelet (37km)
• Embouchure - Couesnon (40km)
• Couesnon (40km)
• Réserve naturelle régionale du Marais de Sougeal (43km)
• Étangs du canal d'Ille-et-Rance (44km)
• Baie de Saint-Brieuc (45km)
• Source - Rance (52km)

Towns of Art and history

• Coutances (62km)

Villages d'etape

(recommended place to break a long journey)

• Dol-de-Bretagne (24km)

Villages in bloom 4* (fr: ville fleurie)

• Saint-Malo (3km)
• Saint-Juvat (31km)

Geography and distances

Getting here

Dinard is in the north-west of France. Most visitors Most UK visitors arrive by car with the cross-channel ferry port at Saint Malo keeping driving time to a minimum. For driving distances to Dinard from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.

We have 5 other places listed as being close (less than kilometres from ): Emerald Coast, La Richardais, Saint-Jouan-Des-Guerets, Saint-Lunaire and Saint-Malo.

This page in French: Visiter Dinard