The Grand Aquarium – Saint-Malo is an aquarium in Saint-Malo, France. It opened in 1996 and now belongs to the group Compagnie des Alpes, which also owns many other parks in France and Europe.
The aquarium houses 11,000 marine animals representing 600 species. It covers 4,000 square metres and holds 2,500,000 litres of water. 360,000 people visit this site each year making it the second most visited tourist site in Brittany. During the visit, you can discover the underwater world in different rooms:
- Cold and temperate seas
- Tropical collection
- Mangrove
- The wreck of the ship where sharks dominates.
Three attractions complete the visit:
- The touch pool that allows you to touch some marine species of the Brittany coast such as rays, bats, sea stars and spiders
- A sharks ring. 7 sharks (4 different species) and 4 sea turtles swim in a basin which contains 600,000 litres of water and completely encircles the room. You can also spend one night in the heart of this ring, surrounded by sharks.
- The Nautibus, a journey in a small submarine, presents 5,000 fishes swimming in a pool of 1,500,000 litres of water.