Rue Jean Jaurès – Jean Jaurès Street

The rue Jean-Jaurès, in Brest

The rue Jean-Jaurès is one of the main commercial streets of Brest, lined with shops, bars, restaurants and cinemas. The Brest audio-guided tour stops here to evoke this animated and semi-pedestrian artery of the capital of the oceans, that will delight lovers of shopping and also reveals a few fine buildings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

History

Fashion boutiques, bars, restaurants and cinemas are at the rendezvous in the rue Jean-Jaurès, one of the most commercial streets of Brest, the capital of the oceans. This semi-pedestrian way of the city centre is one of the great commercial arteries of the city, much frequented by inhabitants and visitors come to enjoy the animation and do their shopping. Besides its numerous shops, which will delight the most keen on shopping, the rue Jean-Jaurès displays a few remarkable buildings dating from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, witnesses of the architectural evolution of Brest, a city largely rebuilt after the destructions of the Second World War. By walking it, you discover a lively and contemporary face of the city, where commerce, leisure and heritage rub shoulders. Linked to the Place de la Liberté, it forms with the rue de Siam the backbone of the Brest commercial centre, and constitutes an unmissable stop of the discovery of the city.

What to see

Here you stroll in one of the main commercial streets of Brest, a semi-pedestrian artery lined with shops, bars, restaurants and cinemas; besides shopping, it reveals a few fine buildings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and forms with the rue de Siam the backbone of the centre. The rue Jean-Jaurès is a must of the capital of the oceans. It is a fine stop, to be explored on foot.

Practical information

The rue Jean-Jaurès crosses the city centre of Brest, linked to the Place de la Liberté, reachable on foot. It is a semi-pedestrian commercial street in free access, lined with shops and restaurants with variable hours. You discover it during a walk in the centre.

What is the rue Jean-Jaurès in Brest?

It is one of the main commercial streets of Brest, a semi-pedestrian artery of the city centre lined with fashion boutiques, bars, restaurants and cinemas; besides shopping, it presents a few remarkable buildings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and forms with the rue de Siam the backbone of the commercial centre of the capital of the oceans.

Where is the rue Jean-Jaurès in Brest?

In the city centre of Brest, linked to the Place de la Liberté, in France.