La Grande-Motte

La Grande -Motte is a municipality with 8488 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Hérault in the Languedoc- Roussillon region.

Geography

La Grande -Motte is situated 25 km from Montpellier in the Gulf of Lions (Mediterranean) in the department of Hérault ( Région Languedoc -Roussillon ). The city is also accessible from the Canal du Rhône à Sète.

History

The current territory of La Grande -Motte is an old part of the community Mauguio. The soil of the place consists in part of former vineyards, which were replaced by a nursery because of their low profitability in 1956 and 1958, and on the other hand from old swamp land, which as grazing land for a manade ( "Bull Farm" ) was used. From the sixties of the 20th century, the tourist town of La Grande -Motte with marina, apartments and campsites came out of nowhere. The objective was to redirect tourist flows from the Spanish beach resorts here. The founding as an independent municipality was held on 1 October 1974.

Symbol of the city are the jobs created by architect Jean Balladur " pyramids ", terraced skyscrapers modeled after Aztec stepped pyramids, which are mostly used as summer residences, as well as the Point Zéro ( " zero " ), which is at sea level (0 m) and at the same point of the city's foundation is.

A student Jean Balladur designed the district of Motte du Couchant, notice its residential facilities by the use of round shapes and curved silhouettes.

The Great Pyramid of La Grande -Motte

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