Le Croisic

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Le Croisic
Ar Groazig
Coat of arms of Le Croisic
Le Croisic (France)
Le Croisic
region Pays de la Loire
Department Loire-Atlantique
Arrondissement Nantes
Canton La Baule-Escoublac
Community association Presqu'île de Guérande Atlantique
Coordinates 47 ° 18 ′  N , 2 ° 31 ′  W Coordinates: 47 ° 18 ′  N , 2 ° 31 ′  W
height 0-20 m
surface 4.5 km 2
Residents 4,093 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 910 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 44490
INSEE code
Website http://www.lecroisic.fr/

Hotel d'Aiguillon (former town hall)

Le Croisic ( Breton Ar Groazig ) is a French municipality with 4093 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Loire-Atlantique in the Region Pays de la Loire . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Nantes . Le Croisic belongs to the canton of La Baule-Escoublac , was the main town ( chef-lieu ) of the canton of Le Croisic until 2015 and belongs to the Presqu'île de Guérande Atlantique municipal association .

geography

Panorama of the coast at Le Croisic

The port of Le Croisic is located on the Atlantic Ocean , on the Côte Armor ("Land by the Sea") on the Kervenel Peninsula. Le Croisic is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Guérande in the east and northeast and Batz-sur-Mer in the southeast. Incidentally, it is surrounded by the Atlantic.

The Route nationale 771 brings you here. The terminus on the Saint-Nazaire – Le Croisic railway line is the terminus of the TGV Atlantique from Paris Gare Montparnasse via Nantes and Saint-Nazaire.

Population development

year 1936 1946 1954 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2011 2012
Residents 2,721 3,426 4,086 4.017 4.102 4,243 4,313 4,428 4,267 4.121 4.043 4,040

Attractions

  • The Long Stone (Pierre-Longue), also: Menhir Signal, Menhir from the Neolithic Age, Monument historique since 1889
  • Notre-Dame-de-Pitié church from the 15th and 16th centuries, a historical monument since 1906
Crucifix Chapel
Menhir
  • Crucifix chapel, Gothic building, dating unknown (probably 15th / 16th century), additions from the 17th century, Monument historique since 1952
  • Saint-Goustan chapel from the 15th century, reconstructed in 1895, monument historique since 1840
Notre-Dame-de-Pitié church
  • Manor of Kervaudu, built at the end of the 15th century, Monument historique since 1921, and Cross of Kervaudu from the 17th century (Monument historique since 1944)
  • Hotel d'Aiguillon, built around 1675, later town hall
  • Tréhic lighthouse, built 1869–1872, electrified in 1950, decommissioned in 1963
  • Pen Castel estate, home of the Henri Becquerels family
  • Ozeanium , a visitor aquarium opened in 1992 with approx. 4000 living beings

Community partnerships

There is a partnership with the German municipality of Laufenburg in Baden-Württemberg .

Personalities

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Loire-Atlantique . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-040-X , pp. 334-351.

Web links

Commons : Le Croisic  - collection of images, videos and audio files