Editing Rennes (section)

===South of the Vilaine===
The Fine Arts Museum is situated on Quai Émile Zola, by the [[Vilaine]] River.

[[Les Champs Libres]] is a building on Esplanade Charles de Gaulle, and was designed by the architect [[Christian de Portzamparc]]. It houses the [[Brittany Museum]] (Musée de Bretagne), the regional library Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole with six floors, and the Espace des Sciences science centre with a planetarium.

At Place Honoré Commeurec is Les Halles Centrales, a covered market from 1922, with one part converted into contemporary art gallery.

The Mercure Hotel is located in a restored building on Rue du Pré-Botté, which is the former office of Ouest-Éclair, and then of [[Ouest-France]], France's leading daily regional newspaper.

There are large mills at Rue Duhamel, constructed on each side of the south branch of the Vilaine in 1895 and 1902.