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Rennes is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France. Rennes is the capital of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department.

Rennes is classified as a city of art and history. Places worth visiting include:

• Colourful traditional half-timbered houses are situated primarily along the roads of Saint-Sauveur, Saint-Georges, de Saint-Malo, Saint-Guillaume, des Dames, du Chapitre, Vasselot, Saint-Michel, de la Psallette and around the plazas of Champ-Jacquet, des Lices, Saint-Anne and Rallier-du-Baty.
• The Parlement de Bretagne and city hall area.
• The Parlement de Bretagne is the most famous 17th century building in Rennes. It was rebuilt after a terrible fire in 1994 that may have been caused by a flare fired by a protester during a demonstration. It houses the Rennes Court of Appeal. The plaza around is built on the classical architecture.
• City Hall
• Opera
• 1920s Saint George Municipal Pool, with mosaics
• Saint George Palace, and its garden
• Saint-Germain square
• Saint-Germain Church
• Saint-Germain footbridge, 20th century wood and metal construction to link the plaza with Émile Zola Quay, across the Vilaine River.
• The place des Lices is lined by hôtels particuliers. with the place Railler-du-Baty, is the location of the weekly big market, the marché des Lices.
• Hôtel de Blossac
• There are 16th century polychrome wooden busts on the façade of 20, Rue du Chapitre.
• Former St. Yves chapel, now the tourism office.
• Museum about the historical development of Rennes.
• Basilica Saint-Sauveur
• Remains of the ramparts. Built from the 3rd to the 12th centuries, the ramparts were largely destroyed between the beginning of the 16th century and the 1860s.
• Saint-Aubin Church, built in the beginning of the 20th century
• Location of a former 14th century hospital
• Jacobite convent
• Some medieval and Renaissance houses, such as these at Champ-Jacquet, can still be found in the centre of Rennes.
• Notre-Dame-en-Saint-Melaine basilica.
• Tower and transept from the 11th century Benedictine abbey of Saint-Melaine
• 14th century Gothic arcades
• 17th century colonnade
• bell tower topped with a gilded Virgin Mary (19th century)
• 17th century cloister
• The Jardin botanique du Thabor (formal French garden, orangerie, rose garden, aviary) a botanical garden on 10 hectares of land, built between 1860 and 1867.
• The 17th century promenade "la Motte à Madame", and a monumental stairway overlooking the rue de Paris entrance to the Thabor.
• The Fine Arts Museum is situated on Quai Émile Zola, by the Vilaine River.
• Les Champs Libres is a building on Esplanade Charles de Gaulle, and was designed by the architect Christian de Portzamparc. It houses the Brittany Museum, the regional library Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole with six floors, and the Espace des Sciences science centre with a planetarium.
• At Place Honoré Commeurec is Les Halles Centrales, a covered market from 1922, with one part converted into contemporary art gallery.
• The Mercure Hotel is located in a restored building on rue du Pré-Botté, which was the prior location of Ouest-Éclair, and then of Ouest-France, a premier daily regional newspaper.
• There are large mills at Rue Duhamel, constructed on each side of the south branch of the Vilaine in 1895 and 1902.
• To the northwest of Rennes, near rue de Saint-Malo are the locks of the Canal d'Ille-et-Rance of 1843.
• There are two halls of the printer, Oberthür, built by Marthenot between 1870 and 1895 on Rue de Paris in the eastern part of the city.
• Oberthür Park is the second biggest garden in the city.
• The 17th century manor of Haute-Chalais, a granite chateau, is situated to the south of the city in Blosne Quarter.

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