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Audio Guide Concarneau
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Concarneau is a working Breton fishing port built around a granite-walled island citadel that has been fortified since the 11th century. The Ville Close still rises straight out of the harbour water, its ramparts modernised by Vauban in the 17th century and now enclosing a fishing museum, a belfry, and a festival that has celebrated sardine fishers since 1905. Beyond the walls, the town holds the world's oldest operating marine station and a beach with a submerged fossil forest visible at low tide.
12+ researched places in the app
Yes. Parroo is a self-guided audio guide for Concarneau: 12 researched places, from Walled Town of Concarneau to Ramparts of the Ville Close and Fishing Museum, each with a short summary, a full article, and a roughly three-minute audio story in German, English, and French. Buy once, no subscription, no booking. Start whenever you like.
Audio sample: Walled Town of Concarneau
Concarneau
Places researched in this city
A selection of the 12 places we've researched in this city. The full set is in the Parroo app.
- Fortified old town
- Maritime heritage
- Coastal beaches
- Neo-Gothic castle
- Military forts
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Walled Town of Concarneau
Bertrand du Guesclin seized this granite islet in 1373, and the walls he found have only grown thicker since, reaching 8 to 10 metres high after Vauban reworked them in the 1690s. The Ville Close is the core of everything Concarneau is, a fortified island still sitting in the middle of an active fishing harbour.
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Ramparts of the Ville Close
Walking the full circuit of the ramparts puts you on walls up to 3 metres thick, built from local granite over successive centuries starting around 1285. From the top you look down on the fishing port on one side and the open bay on the other.
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Fishing Museum
The museum's star exhibit is the Hémérica, a full-size ocean trawler you can board inside the building, housed in former military barracks built between 1844 and 1849. More than 12,000 objects trace the fishing trade from Concarneau to the wider world.
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The Fishing Port and the Auction
Concarneau's criée, founded in 1893, processes around 3,700 tonnes of fish each year across 15,000 square metres of floor space, clad in Trégunc granite. The quay it anchors was built between 1927 and 1938 and the Festival des Filets Bleus, celebrating sardine fishers, has run here since 1905.
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Marinarium
Founded in 1859 at the initiative of Napoleon III, this is the oldest marine station in the world still in operation, where Laurent Chabry conducted embryology experiments as early as 1887. The public Marinarium opened in 1972 and now holds 11 aquariums including a 120,000-litre grand basin.
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White Sands Beach
At low tide the beach exposes a submerged fossil forest of ancient oaks, one of the more unexpected things the Breton coast quietly holds. The fine white sand itself is rare this far north, and on a clear day the Glénan archipelago sits on the horizon.
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Keriolet Castle
A Russian princess, Zénaïde Narischkine-Youssoupoff, bought a 15th-century Breton manor in the 1860s and rebuilt it as a neo-Gothic showcase using local granite and Kersanton stone, mixing Renaissance and Breton decorative motifs throughout. Restoration only began in 1988, so the castle carries its history visibly.
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Good to know
12 researched places, from the Ville Close and the Marinarium to lesser-known spots like the White Sands Beach fossil forest. Each one has a short summary, a full article, and a ~3-minute audio story.
Yes. Every place has a ~3-minute audio story, written from the perspective of a guide standing next to you and produced with premium narration, not the article read aloud.
German, English, and French. Pick whichever you'd rather read or listen in.
No booking, no signup. It's a self-guided walk you start whenever you like. You do need a connection for now to stream the audio and load articles; offline support is something we're still building.
A one-time €4.99 for the whole city, no subscription and no recurring cost. You buy Concarneau once and keep access to all 12 places with text and audio.
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Updated: 2026-09-25