The gare de Vitré train station !

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Initially, I look up this town and was not in my blog ,and did a post on the train station, Afterward, came several times and its about time to update this older post with new text and links for you and me. Therefore, I like to tell you about the gare de Vitré train station ! Hope you enjoy it as I

The City of Vitré is in the Ille et Vilaine dept 35 of my lovely Bretagne. It occupies the Marche region in upper Bretagne. It is label City of Art and History and the inscription to the list of the most beautiful detours of France. Vitré is the 37th French town with the most historical monuments and  comprised  14% of the historical monuments of the department. The city was promoted to flower town or “Ville Fleurie”, on 3 flowers label and has two stars in the green Michelin Guide. There, what are you waiting for?

The town is 171 km from our home, and 41 km from Rennes. We took the N157 from Rennes into the D777 to Vitré by car is easy. It is, also, 275 km from Paris, 104 km from Nantes, and 62 km from Mont-Saint-Michel. The Paris-Brest Expressway N157-E50, which extends the A11 expressway to Vitré is a wonderful ride indeed. The train line to Vitré was opened in 1857 on the Paris-Brest line. Then, a second line in the direction of Fougéres was opened in 1867  a viaduc spanning the valley of the Vilaine was built to the west of the city, and finally in 1874, a third line to the La Guerche-de-Bretagne. The construction of the train station was carried out in 1855 in the form of a small Gothic castle in brick and Tufa, in the city center, just south of the walled city.

The gare de Vitré or train station is at 15, place du Général de Gaulle, It’s construction began in 1855 and ended in 1857. Victor Lenoir was the architect of the Vitré train station but also that of the old station Montparnasse in Paris. The installation of the station in the immediate vicinity of the historic center resulted in the destruction of the southern ramparts and a Haussmannisation of the inner city districts by the opening of north / south oriented boulevards such as rue Garengeot, rue Bertrand-d’Argentré, and rue Duguesclin.

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The SNCF train station of Vitré has a passenger building with a ticket office, open every day. It is equipped with machines for the purchase of TER transport tickets The station is served by TGVs running between Paris-Montparnasse and the Breton stations of Rennes and Saint-Malo, and by regional trains from the TER Bretagne and TER Pays networks de la Loire, circulating between Rennes, Laval and Le Mans. Since the commissioning of the Virgule de Sablé line , the station has also been linked to Nantes, via Angers.

The Vitré – Fougéres section of the Vitré – Pontorson line closed on March 5, 1972, The Vitré – La Guerche-de-Bretagne section of the Martigné-Ferchaud – Vitré line was closed the same year. The railway line was transformed into a hiking trail in the 1990s.

The Vitré tourist office is located at Place du Général de Gaulle right across the train station. This as always is the starting point for a visit anywhere you are not familiar with and even if are me think. We always get updates here and at Vitré there is a world of information to know the city well, I like to add it here as across the street from the gare.

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The SNCF train station of Vitré : https://www.garesetconnexions.sncf/fr/gares-services/vitre

The TER lines of Bretagne on Vitré: https://www.ter.sncf.com/bretagne/se-deplacer/gares/vitre-87471508

The Bretagne Vitré tourist office on the presentation of the city: https://www.bretagne-vitre.com/en/vitre-lincontournable/le-centre-historique-pas-a-pas/

The City of Vitré on tourism info : https://www.mairie-vitre.com/-Tourisme-.html

There you go folks, a nice side step to see nice useful information for any visit to any town or region and the ever present train stations of my belle France, Again, hope you enjoy the post on the gare de Vitré train station as I

And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!

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Published by pedmar10

I am a lover of travels to Europe , Americas , Africa and Asia as well ,who like to share my experiences of the last 53 years with the world, visiting so far 81 countries; living in 6, working in 5, and Citizen of 4, speaking fluently 4 languages. I can deal with sports especially football/soccer and love music, arts, wine collector/drinker, and go out to restaurants, and just visit the world. My background comes all the way from Candelaria and Pajara in Tenerife, Spain where my grandparents came from ;not knowing each other then, to Punta Brava, west of Havana, Cuba. There , my parents born in Cuba met and later on I was born there too. 100% guanche (annexed Tenerife to Spain on April 10 ,1496). I left Cuba as many have to Madrid, Spain where I lived for 4 years. Then, move to Perth Amboy ,New Jersey USA (living there 13 yrs) ; where I completed high school, became a US Citizen, learned to drive a car, and learned English. Afterward, went to the university in Florida, ERAU, and upon graduation decided to moved there to Ormond by the Sea, near Daytona Beach, finally moving North Miami, then Hialeah, then another moved to Silver Lakes division in Miramar, Broward county, Florida; in Florida I lived a total of 18 years. Finally , moved to France in 2003 ,Versailles call me for its royalty, and working in Paris was great. It was time to seek frontiers again and moved to Brech near Auray, Morbihan in Brittany , and later move to not too far Pluvigner. Total so far in France has been 20 years, and counting. Moving average a home every 5.5 years hopefully this will be my last. Cheers All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of the copyright holder, me. No part of this work may be modified, without the written permission of the holder, me.No part of this work may be exposed to public view in any form or by any means, without identifying the holder as the author, and with the before mentioned permission.

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