The historic breton city of Saint-Malo, built between the 17th and 18th century, is known for the richness and beauty of its cultural and environmental heritage and its enduring authentic charm.
The city of Saint-Malo and La Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe
La Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe: six words, six little words overflowing with dreams, celebration and adventure. Six words filled with vast yellow suns and tempestuous seas. This race is no walk in the park. It has been part of our collective memory since 1978, it excites us, it intoxicates us. It awakens our senses.
Years have passed since the first departure and the victory of Mike Birch, but every person in St Malo carries fragments of La Route in their hearts: the disappearance of Alain Colas, the triumph of Florence Arthaud in 1990, the perfect double of Laurent Bourgnon in 94 and 98, the dedication, the parades, the sorrows and the joys, especially the joys... 44 years on, La Route is back to amaze us; it leaves with us traces of transatlantic adventure, the ocean, traces of men and women who go further, who outdo themselves aboard vessels that seem to fly. Yes, it’s the stuff of dreams: on the other side of this ocean, which Francis Joyon crossed in 7 days 14 hours 21 minutes and 47 seconds, await our Guadeloupean friends, and therefore a true, tangible, unwavering friendship.
La Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe is a human, technological, sporting and economic adventure. Alongside the football World Cup, the Tour de France and Roland Garros, there are few bigger or better sporting events, capable of bringing together young and the old, uniting people.
Saint-Malo will welcome this year’s Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe with open arms. The race departs on 6 November, but for twelve days leading up to this date, while the village is open, the corsair city will come alive.