The cliffs
Dropping to the sea.
Georges Seguin (Okki) — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Georges Seguin (Okki) — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Amanda Hinault from Lannion, France — CC BY-SA 2.0 · Georges Seguin (Okki) — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Giorgio Galeotti — CC BY 4.0
Cap Fréhel is a peninsula in Côtes-d'Armor, northern Brittany, France, reaching out from the Emerald Coast into the Bay of Saint-Malo, about 22 km west of Saint-Malo in a straight line. The cape is 8.5 km from the centre of Fréhel and lies within the commune of Plévenon. High cliffs ring the peninsula and make it hard to reach from the sea, and its rolling ground is covered in moorland and marsh, so no towns or villages stand on it. Two lighthouses rise at its tip, one from the 17th century and one from 1950. The cape was the finish of Stage 5 of the 2011 Tour de France, and the French singer Fréhel took her stage name from it. Red and grey cliffs drop sheer into clear blue sea, and in summer purple heather and yellow gorse cover the plateau above. The two stone lighthouses stand at the tip of the cape, with the rock of Amas du Cap rising from the sea in front. Visitors walk the plateau paths through the heather to the lighthouses and the cliff edge, photographing the sea rock off the cape. The cape is exposed to the wind, and summer, when the heather blooms, is its finest season.
Dropping to the sea.
Purple blooms.
A sea rock.
Plévenon, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany, France
Summer, when the heather blooms.
Two, from the 17th century and 1950.