Les Sables-d'Olonne

Les Sables d'Olonne is a French port, fishing and seaside town with 14,165 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in the department of Vendée in the Pays de la Loire on the Atlantic. You can look back to many centuries of history. Nearby are the famous towns of La Rochelle in the south and La Roche- sur- Yon, the capital of the Vendée, in the north.

In summer the population increases by a multiple. Especially French and English tourists, but also some German and Dutch come in France's second largest seaside resort.

Coat of arms

Description: In blue a white Mary on a white cloud, each a white Cherubkopf to their pages accompanied by a green wave crest in the sign with a white three-masted square-rigged ship with two set white sails on two masts and one at the rear pole and pole banners.

Attractions

  • La Tour d' Arundel (district la Chaume )
  • Marina and fishing harbor
  • Le remblai ( kilometer-long beach promenade )
  • La Rue de l' Enfer ( "Street of Hell", the narrowest street in the world)
  • L' Ile Penotte ( the shell road )

Most sights can be expired with a card for it provided by the tourist office and visited.

Twinning

Les Sables d'Olonne maintains partnerships with cities

Personalities

Freeman

  • Hartwig Reimann ( born September 18, 1938 in Riesenburg / West Prussia ), German local politician and former mayor of Schwabach ( until April 2008).

Sons and daughters of the town

  • François l' Ollonais, French pirate in the Caribbean

Others

  • The novels Maigret 's Holiday and The Son Cardinaud by Georges Simenon play in Les Sables d'Olonne
  • From 1951 to 1956 took place in international motor sports events on two temporary street circuit around Lac du Tanchet.
  • The single-handed yacht race Vendee Globe starts and finishes in Les Sables d'Olonne.
  • The single-handed sailing regatta Les Sables -Les Açores -Les Sables begins and ends in Les Sables d'Olonne.
  • The Musee de l' Abbaye Sainte -Croix displays works by the French painter Gaston Chaissac and Victor Brauner.
  • On 10 March 2008 the container ship " Artemis " was entering the harbor of Les Sables d'Olonne in the morning, when it was 500 meters south of the port flushed from the storm and the flow at the beach. As the tide began, which is about 5000 tons of measured ship sat completely fixed on the sand. Numerous spectators strolled around the 88 -meter colossus.
Arrondissement Cantons of France Postal codes in France La Roche-sur-Yon
508947
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