Henan Castle has a “totally unique location overlooking the river,” Mr. Bilder said. “It is possible to leave the chateau by boat to reach the Atlantic Ocean or the port of Pont-Aven.

My favorite memories from the last trip my husband and I took to Saint Malo and Quimper, two of the more populated towns in ...

In the autumn of 1888, Paul Gauguin and a young Parisian artist, Paul Sérusier, headed off to the Bois d’Amour – the Woods of Love – just outside Pont-Aven.

6 Pont-Aven is perhaps most well-known for its ties to painters like Henry Bacon Credit: Alamy 6 The French town is a 70-minute drive from Brest, the closest airport Credit: Alamy Topics ...

A small settlement in Brittany, Pont-Aven has had an outsize influence on the history of Western painting: post-Impressionist master Paul Gauguin first came to the village in 1886, and returned ...