Le Bois-Plage-en-Ré
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Charente-Maritime | |
| Arrondissement | La Rochelle | |
| Canton | Île de Ré | |
| Community association | Île de Ré | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 11 ′ N , 1 ° 24 ′ W | |
| height | 1–17 m | |
| surface | 12.18 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,248 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 185 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 17580 | |
| INSEE code | 17051 | |
| Website | www.iledere.com | |
 Mairie Le Bois-Plage-en-Ré |
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Le Bois-Plage-en-Ré is a municipality with 2248 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) on the Île de Ré on the French Atlantic coast , which has been named after him since 1927 and is a merger of the three former independent hamlets Bois , Le Morinand and Rouland is. The former name Le Bois is also still very common today. It is a small town without its own port on the south coast of the Île de Ré, opposite the coast of the island of Île d'Oléron . Le Bois-Plage-en-Ré is one of the larger towns on the island and has several kilometers of very fine sandy beach with large dunes.
beaches
The beaches of the municipality of Le Bois-Plage-en-Ré extend for five to six kilometers. From north to south they are named one after the other:
- Port au Vin (also called Peu Bernard or la Batterie because there is still a log house on this section ).
- Plague you Petit Sergent
- Les Fontaines
- Les brémaudières
- Bidon V
- Les Gollandières
- Les Seauzes
- Le Pas des Boeufs
- Gros-Jonc
- Les Gouillauds (especially for surfing and in westerly winds for surfing )
At Le Bois market
Poissonnerie (fish shop) in Le Bois-Plage
Wine cooperative on the Île de Ré
New planting of vines at Le Bois-Plage-en-Ré
economy
Like most places on the island, this one mainly lives from:
- Oyster farming, which is carried out exclusively on the north coast.
- fishing
- Tourism. There are a large number of hotels and campsites.
- Sea tourism and water sports.
- Agriculture
- potatoes , asparagus , vegetables and wine are predominantly grown.
- The light to medium-heavy sandy soil allows the cultivation of potato varieties that do not otherwise exist in France. They are the only potatoes in France that are: allowed to carry the AOC label. The vegetables are: marketed throughout France under the specially created and protected: Denomination of Origin Île de Ré .
- The Coopérative vinicole , the island's wine cooperative , is also based in Le Bois-Plage-en-Ré .
- Le Bois-Plage-en-Ré has a large daily market with the largest indoor market on the island.
Personalities
- René Théodore Phelippot was a local councilor and mayor for 22 years. He was the founder and collector of a museum in his home. After his death, the exhibits were bought up by Enest Cognacq in order to establish the fund of the Ernest Cognacq Museum in Saint-Martin-de-Ré .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Charente-Maritime. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-84234-129-5 , pp. 903-906.
