The port of Pouliguen
The port of Pouliguen is a beaching port, i.e. subjected to tidal variation.
The origins of the Pouliguen quays can be traced back to the 15th century.
Completely restored in 1861, they are rigged with granite and today stretch as far as the end of La Promenade.
The channel serves as a border between the communes of La Baule and Pouliguen. In the beginning, only the Pouliguennaise bank was developed.
Once surrounded by handsome residences, the oldest of which date back to the 16th century, the port has developed. The granite constructions built during the salt trading boom have mostly given way to bathing villas or, since the 1960s, modern apartment blocks.
The salt marshes:
Between Vilaine and Loire, the Atlantic has sculpted the shoreline along the Guérandaise peninsula, shaped in turn by man, with a Breton soul.
Secret villages are dotted here and there, dominated by the granite islet of the market town of Batz-sur-Mer, as well as medieval Guérande, on its hilltop, surveying the land of which it is capital: Gwen Rann which, in the Breton language, means the White Country.
This landscape, with its thousands of water mirrors, reflects the long tradition of work following the course of time and nature