Morbihan lies at the middle of the five départements that form the region of Brittany.
It is bounded by Finistère to the west, Côtes-d’Armor to the north, Ille-et-Vilaine to the north-east and Loire-Atlantique to the south-east.
The past is everywhere, from the Second World War Atlantic Wall fortifications and the submarine pens at Lorient to the fortresses of the Hundred Years’ War at Josselin and Pontivy to the prehistoric standing stone alignments of Carnac; to say nothing of the Christian pilgrimage sites such as Sainte-Anne-d’Auray.