Roscoff tourism and travel guide
Visit Roscoff: highlights and tourist information
Travel Guide To Visit AttractionsFrance This Way comment: Think Roscoff is just a ferry terminal? Take time o explore the historic centre!
Important note
This page features a summary of highlights that you might like to explore near Roscoff. For detailed visitor information see the Roscoff travel guide.
Roscoff is situated in the Finistere department and Brittany region, in the north-west of France at 81 kilometres from Quimper, the department capital (general information: Roscoff is 464 kilometres from Paris).
Popular places to visit nearby include Saint-Pol-de-Leon at 4 km and Plouezoch at 15 km. For more places to visit and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Roscoff, 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 Roscoff in Brittany.
Note that all distances below are 'direct' and real driving distances will be greater!
... or see ALL recommended places to visit in Finistere
Map of places to visit near Roscoff
Markets in and near Roscoff
Market days in Roscoff: weekly market: Wednesday;
- Roscoff: market Wednesday (0km)
- Saint-Pol-de-Leon: market Tuesday all day (4km)
- Carantec: market Thursday (8km)
- Plougasnou: market Tuesday (15km)
- Plouescat: market Saturday (15km)
- Morlaix: market Saturday all day (19km)
- Landivisiau: market Wednesday all day (24km)
- Locquirec: market Wednesday (24km)
- Brignogan-Plage: market Friday - seasonal market only (26km)
- Plestin-les-Greves: market Sunday (27km)
More information about Roscoff, Brittany
Tourist attractions near Roscoff, France
What to do at Roscoff? Some places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Roscoff.
Aquarium
- Aquarium marin de Trégastel (37km)
- Océanopolis (49km)
Enclos paroissial churches
- Saint Thégonnec (22km)
- Bodilis (23km)
- Lampaul-Guimiliau (25km)
- Guimiliau (26km)
- Plougonven (30km)
- Locmelar (30km)
- Plouneour-Ménez (31km)
- La Roche Maurice (32km)
- La Martyre (33km)
- Commana (34km)
- Sizun (35km)
- Plougastel-Daoulas (48km)
National Monuments
- Cairn de Barnenez (15km)
Remarkable gardens
- Jardin exotique (1km)
- Jardin Delasselle (4km)
- Arboretum de Poërop (43km)
- Conservatoire botanique du Stangalac'h (52km)
Sites of natural beauty
- Molène (Côtes-d'Armor) (28km)
- Île Milliau (29km)
- Vallée des Traouïero (34km)
- Mont Saint-Michel de Brasparts (41km)
- Réserve naturelle nationale des Sept-Îles (41km)
Villages d'etape
(recommended place to break a long journey)
- Saint-Thegonnec (22km)
Villages in bloom 4* (fr: ville fleurie)
- Lannion (39km)
- Brest (52km)
Geography and distances
Distance to Roscoff
from Quimper (prefecture): 81 km
from Paris: 464 km
from Calais: 487 km
from Nice: 1028 km
from Bordeaux: 503 km
from Strasbourg: 861 km
Getting here
Roscoff is in the north-west of France. Most visitors Most UK visitors arrive by car from one of the many cross-channel ports along the Brittany and Normandy coast. These are typically within 2 hours drive. For driving distances to Roscoff from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
We have 5 other places listed as being close (less than kilometres from ): Carantec, Ile-de-Batz, Saint-Pol-de-Leon, Santec and Sibiril.
This page in French: Visiter Roscoff
