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Category: Seaside resorts in France. 16 languages. ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary ...
A seaside resort is a city, town, village, or hotel that serves as a vacation resort and is located on a coast. Sometimes the concept includes an aspect of an official accreditation based on the satisfaction of certain requirements such as in the German Seebad. [a] Where a beach is the primary focus for tourists, it may be called a beach resort.
This fishing-village on the English Channel became a popular tourist attraction (beach-resort and holiday-destination) in Normandy from the 19th century. Its long sandy beach earned then the nickname of "queen of the beaches" ("Reine des plages") or "most beautiful beach in the world". [3]
Euronat is a naturist holiday resort near the CHM Montalivet naturist resort, in Grayan-et-l'Hôpital, France. After the success of CHM Montalivet, it was apparent that there was a need for even more capacity. Euronat was founded by Hubert Lacroix (1931–1995) in a pine forest 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) away from the beach.
The land adjoining the long sandy beach at Cap d'Agde was owned for many years by the winemaker Oltra family [6] who farmed the olive groves behind the sand dunes adjoining the beach. After World War II , in 1950's, the Oltra brothers noticed that people were coming in increasing numbers to camp on their land, for bathing and sunbathing nude.
La Baule-Escoublac (French pronunciation: [la bol ɛskublak]; Gallo: Écoubiâ, Breton: Ar Baol-Skoubleg, [ar ˈbawl ˈskuːbleːk]), commonly referred to as La Baule, is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department, Pays de la Loire, western France. A century-old seaside resort in southern Brittany with villas, casino, luxury hotels and an ...
Hotel du Palais Biarritz in 1919. The building is set on the main beach of the town, which lies on the rugged coast of the Bay of Biscay at the foot of the Pyrenees. [2] In 1854, the emperor Napoleon III and his wife Eugénie bought several acres of dunes in Biarritz and gave the engineer Dagueret the task of establishing a summer home surrounded by gardens, woods, meadows, a pond and ...
The Terre Blanche Hotel Spa Golf Resort is located at Tourrettes, Var, just southeast of Fayence in the Provence region of France. The Bouge family owned the estate in the 18th century. Actor Sean Connery bought the property in 1979, comprising the château and its surrounding 266 hectares .