Resto salting tanks

It is no accident that the Romans set up a fishing ground here on the foreshore, and on the headland, salting tanks. Creating a wide bend in the Blavet estuary, the Le Resto peninsula is ideal for landing boats and net fishing for species swimming up and downriver: salmon, mullet, seatrout and eels. Archaeological digs in the 1980s revealed the ruins of a fishing road, now buried in the mud and, further upriver, the ruins of a small factory. Comprised of buildings and four salting tanks protected by a slate roof, it was in operation until the end of the 3rd century, for salting and drying fish.