Saint-Malo Walled city

From the Walls of Saint-Malo

Saint-Malo the famous granite city, is a walled port city in Brittany in northwestern France on the English Channel. Saint-Malo became notorious as the home of the corsairs, French privateers and sometimes pirates. (The "corsair" activities started in the Middle Ages)

The corsairs of Saint-Malo not only forced English ships passing up the Channel to pay tribute, but also brought wealth from further afield. Jacques Cartier, who sailed the Saint Lawrence River and visited the sites of Quebec City and Montreal – and is thus credited as the discoverer of Canada, lived in and sailed from Saint-Malo, as did the first colonists to settle the Falklands – hence the islands' French name Îles Malouines, which gave rise to the Spanish name Islas Malvinas.

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