Shopping preview in Rennes
Rennes’ specialties are highly sought, but as they generally fall into the food category, they don’t quite qualify as shopping purposes. Still, here are a few of the local delicacies that gently combine eating and shopping in Rennes: Kouing Amann, Quatre quart, half-salty butter and caramels au beurre salé.
Luxury shopping in Rennes mainly revolves around the large shopping mall at Place du Colombier and the new shopping mall La Visitation, close to Place Sainte Anne. Plenty of shops are to be found on rue le Bastard and rue d’Orléans, but yet another shopping mall in Rennes, the Galleries Lafayette, is located in the city center on the docks.
If looking for travel books and maps of Rennes, go to Librairie Ariane (20 rue Cap. Dreyfus), but if real shopping is what you’re after then try the Lices market held every Saturday morning. It is well known that markets offer a competitive approach to shopping, and markets in Rennes make no exception.
