Trégastel suits couples and young families who want fine-sand beaches among pink granite boulders, just over an hour by car from Roscoff. Homes here are small, mostly for two to four, and pools are not a feature. Summer is crowded: the population of this resort rises roughly fivefold in high season.
Trégastel is a seaside resort of about 2,500 people on Brittany's Pink Granite Coast, between Perros-Guirec and Pleumeur-Bodou. Its coast has a dozen fine-sand beaches facing different ways, broken up by piles of pink granite with names such as the Die, the Turtles and the Corkscrew. Grève Blanche is the better swimming beach; Coz-Pors has less fine sand and colder water but more cafés and terraces, plus the marine aquarium set beneath the boulders. Our homes are grouped close together within the resort. Locals prefer the restaurants around Place Sainte-Anne.
An island that is really a peninsula, closed to cars, with a walk through the rocks, a covered passage grave and views towards Ploumanac'h and the Sept-Îles.
A tide mill on a site granted in 1375, the present building dating from 1764; it opens to visitors from mid-June to mid-September.
The sub-prefecture town about 11 km away, with the TGV station and onward buses to Trégastel.
Coming through the port of Roscoff, Trégastel is around 1 hour 12 minutes away by car. Flying, Brest has flights from London Gatwick, and both Brest and Rennes airports connect by train to Lannion, then a bus. A car is much easier than buses for beaches along this coast.
July and August are busy, as the population swells about fivefold, with lifeguards on Coz-Pors and the Sainte-Anne pardon in July. Outside summer the crowds thin, and dogs are allowed on Coz-Pors on a lead from October to May. The tide mill shuts to visitors from mid-September.
Yes, it is classed as a family beach, with lifeguards in July and August, toilets, showers and a first-aid post, plus cafés and the aquarium nearby. For softer sand and swimming, walk to Grève Blanche.
On Coz-Pors, only from 1 October to 31 May, and on a lead. Dogs are banned there from 1 June to 30 September, so summer dog walks are best taken on the coast path.
There are two. Place Sainte-Anne has about 280 stallholders in summer, which makes it the second-largest market in the department. A smaller organic and local producers' market runs late on Friday afternoons.
Some of them, at low tide only. The Île du Gouffre and the grassy Île aux Lapins can be reached on foot when the tide is out, but check tide times so you are not cut off.
Written by the TrustedVillas team. Last reviewed October 2026.
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