On a second day of our summer trip we took a bus from Mt St Michel to Pontorson where we spent a couple of hours and then a train to Rennes. Because of the Covid the timetables have switched and we needed to move our originally planned times and schedule, so instead of a planned full day in Rennes we only managed to stay for a few hours there. We still managed to walk around the city center and to visit a few places, but did not cover a lot of other places we really wanted to. I guess it's a good reason to be back? :)
And, traditionally, a Wikipedia article:
Rennes (French pronunciation: [ʁɛn] (About this soundlisten); Breton: Roazhon [ˈrwɑːzən]; Gallo: Resnn; Latin: Condate Redonum) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the capital of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department.
Rennes's history goes back more than 2,000 years, at a time when it was a small Gallic village named Condate. Together with Vannes and Nantes, it was one of the major cities of the ancient Duchy of Brittany. From the early sixteenth century until the French Revolution, Rennes was a parliamentary, administrative and garrison city of the historic province of Brittany of the Kingdom of France.
Since the 1950s, Rennes has grown in importance through rural flight and its modern industrial development, partly automotive. The city developed extensive building plans to accommodate upwards of 200,000 inhabitants. During the 1980s, Rennes became one of the main centres in telecommunication and high technology industry. It is now a significant digital innovation centre in France.
In 2015, the city was the tenth largest in France, with a metropolitan area of about 720,000 inhabitants. With more than 66,000 students in 2016, it is also the eighth-largest university campus of France. The inhabitants of Rennes are called Rennais(e)(es) in French. In 2018, L'Express named Rennes as "the most liveable city in France".
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