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Les-Sables-d’Olonne

The home of Vendée Globe

Les Sables-d’Olonne is a large seaside town on the Atlantic Ocean and a sub-prefecture of the Vendée, located just north of La Rochelle and south of the resorts St-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie and St-Jean-de-Monts.

The settlement was founded in 1218 by Savary de Mauléon from nearby Talmondais prospering well into the 17th C. from fishing and still sends more than 80 boats a year into the Atlantic cod fishing.

On the Côte de Lumière, this popular resort has much to offer the visitor: a vibrant promenade with attractive shopping and cafés, a long, fine, safe and sandy beach, an extensive marina not to mention a casino and a thalassotherapy spa!

However, the resort’s main claim to fame is that every four years it hosts the setting off of the Vendée Globe, the renowned single-handed, non-stop, un-aided, round the world yacht race.

What else to see:

There are several notable churches including:

Nôtre-Dame-de-Bon-Port - classified as aHistoric Monument.

The Museum of Shells

Blockhouse Hospital Museum

Pays-de-la-Loire

Images by Florian Pépellin, Paul Shawcross