La Trinite sur Mer travel guide

Visit La Trinite sur Mer (Brittany, France)

La Trinité-sur-Mer is a substantial port and harbour to the east of Carnac in Brittany facing on to Quiberon Bay.

The town focuses on oyster production and on providing a pleasant atmosphere to attract pleasure boats to the harbour, and there are several beaches along the coast close by.

Explore La Trinité-sur-Mer

Your visit to the town in La Trinité-sur-Mer will focus along the seafront, which is a pleasant place to stroll along, with the town and its low houses, shops and cafes to one side and the sea and harbour to the other.

Harbour and town

As you walk along the waterfront the main thing you will notice is just how extensive the pleasure harbour is - the town runs for several hundred metres along the seafront and looks out on a veritable car park for boats and yachts of all sizes, stretching as far as the eye can see - with even more outside the main harbour area.

Not surprisingly the town itself also has a focus on boats with yacht supplies, boat hire and equipment all to hand. La Trinité-sur-Mer is also home to one of Europe's biggest regattas, which takes place here in Quiberon Bay each Easter.

After walking along the waterfront, head a little way up the hill behind the shops towards the church and stroll through the streets of La Trinité-sur-Mer for a little while - apart from the unusual style church you will find several streets with traditional Brittany cottages to explore here in one of the most pleasant of the small harbour towns in this part of Brittany.

Both along the seafront and in the town you can find a good choice of restaurants - not surprisingly, sea food and crepes are the main local specialities!

Beaches of La Trinité-sur-Mer

You will find several beaches close to hand, of which Kervillen Plage is the most popular and nicely protected from the wind. This is also the beach that is best to visit if it is low tide.

If you follow the road towards Carnac you reach the Plage du Men-Du, another sandy beach and with the unusual feature that at low tide the Ile de Stuhan, a short distance off the coast, becomes joined to the mainland by a strip of sand.

The beach at Men Allen is also of interest - it is one of very few beaches in France that are convex shaped - a result of the directions of the currents either side of the port.

There are several other small beaches also along this eastern side of the La Trinité-sur-Mer peninsula such as the Plage du Port, Plage de Kerbihan and Plage Grazu, as well as Plage du Ty Guard at the southern tip of the peninsula.

Note that these are sandy beaches only at high tide, and popular with fishermen when the sea recedes.

Attractions nearby

As well as the beaches, the most popular attractions include the famous standing stones in and around Carnac and Locmariaquer, both close to La Trinité-sur-Mer. There are also several dolmen near the town itself including a small alignment at Petit Ménec.

You can also visit the islands and natural environment of the Morbihan Gulf, a short distance to the east of the town.

Explore elsewhere in the Brittany coast. You can find more travel ideas in the Morbihan guide and the Brittany guide.