Le Grau-du-Roi

Le Grau -du -Roi ( Occitan Lo Grey dau REI) is a municipality in the department of Gard in the Languedoc- Roussillon region in southern France. It has 8338 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011).

Geography

Le Grau -du -Roi is located in the south of the department of Gard. It is the only sea access this department. When Anfangsaufgliederung the Hérault département has waived the town of Le Grau-du -Roi and (at that time very rich ) get in return the town of Ganges. Founded in Le Grau -du -Roi by Italian immigrants in the late 19th century in an inhospitable zone between the sea and ponds at the mouth of Vidourle in the Mediterranean Sea. Until the 1920s, the economic activities of the city were completely limited to the fishery. After that, the tourism has become increasingly important. End of the 1960s began with the installation of a new marina. Today, it has become the district of Port Camargue, the largest marina in Europe.

In the ponds around Le Grau -du -Roi numerous wildlife flamingos live.

Demographics

Others

The first part of Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden (Eng. The Garden of Eden ), a 1986 posthumously published novel about a ménage à trois, playing in Le Grau -du -Roi and in the far distant Aigues-Mortes.

Sister City

  • Dosse, Germany
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