Explore Brest

The Tour Tanguy is a 14th-century round tower with a conical slate roof on a rocky mound on the Recouvrance bank of the Penfeld, facing the Château de Brest. Owned by the city since 1954, it houses a museum of old Brest whose 14 dioramas by the artist Jim Sévellec recreate the streets and events of the city before 1939.

The Château de Brest stands on a rock at the mouth of the Penfeld river, on a site fortified since a Roman fort of the late 3rd century. Its medieval towers and Vauban's 17th-century defences still serve the French Navy as the seat of the maritime prefecture, while part of the castle houses the Brest branch of the Musée national de la Marine.