Le Touquet-Paris-Plage
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| region | Hauts-de-France | |
| Department | Pas-de-Calais | |
| Arrondissement | Montreuil | |
| Canton | Étaples | |
| Community association | Deux Baies en Montreuillois | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 31 ' N , 1 ° 35' E | |
| height | 1-42 m | |
| surface | 15.31 km 2 | |
| Residents | 4,223 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 276 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 62520 | |
| INSEE code | 62826 | |
| Website | www.letouquet.com | |
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Le Touquet (or shorter Le Touquet ) ( Dutch Het Hoekske ) is a French municipality with 4223 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Pas-de-Calais (62) in the region of Hauts-de-France . It belongs to the arrondissement of Montreuil and the canton of Étaples . The inhabitants are called Touquettois .
geography
The seaside resort is located on the south side of the funnel mouth of the coastal river Canche in the English Channel about 40 km south of Boulogne-sur-Mer . On the other side of the estuary is the city of Étaples . The stretch of coast is called the Côte d'Opale .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 | 2016 |
| Residents | 4.064 | 4,403 | 5,370 | 5,204 | 5,596 | 5,299 | 5,438 | 4,538 | 4244 |
history
Le Touquet was founded in the 19th century and was initially mainly visited by the English ; the name extension Paris-Plage can be traced back to the fact that the place later became one of the preferred bathing beaches of the Parisian population - probably due to its convenient connections . (Le Touquet is close to Route nationale 1 and on the Paris – Calais – London line.)
politics
Daniel Fasquelle (LR) has been mayor again since the 2020 local elections, after having won his list (div.) With 51.05% (1,370 votes) ahead of Juliette Bernard (Div C.) with 48.95% (1,659 votes) Has.
Attractions
The outstanding feature of the spa and climatic health resort , in addition to the casino and the golf courses, is the fine sandy beach, which extends twelve kilometers to the south from the mouth of the Cane and is sufficiently wide even at high tide . A pine forest on the edge of the town center, which was created in 1855, has hardly any tourist value, as it was largely parceled out and built on with villas.
traffic
In the east of the city, Départementsstraße 940 leads on a bridge over the Canche to Étaples. The A16 autoroute runs further east and can be reached via junction 26 (Ètaples). Étaples is also home to the Étaples-Le Touquet train station on the Paris - Boulogne-sur-Mer line, which is served by French Intercités in addition to the TER Nord-Pas-de-Calais regional service. The Touquet-Cote d'Opale Airport is located in the northeastern area of the river mouth. It is mainly used for sports and leisure purposes. Three flight schools, including two for helicopter flights, are located there.
Sports facilities
From 1903 to 1905 Pierre de Coubertin was the sports director of Le Touquet, which was essentially built up by English investors. Here he was able to realize his ideas of ideal, beautiful sports facilities, where he was able to shape John Ruskin's ideal of beauty with the sports-technical needs for an international clientele. For Coubertin, a sports paradise was created that has largely retained its unique character to this day. The tennis stadium in Le Touquet is named after him.
Motorsport
Le Touquet is also famous for its motorcycle dune rally Enduro du Touquet , known since the 1970s , which takes place every year in February or March and is visited from all over the world. From 2006, the race will be moved from the dunes to the beach and renamed Enduropale - primarily for nature conservation reasons . Around 1,000 enduro pilots race on the beach for three hours. The winner is whoever has driven the most laps (approx. 16 km). The fastest participant drives a top speed of over 200 km / h on the beach. In 2005, 450,000 spectators followed the event at Paris-Plage, making Le Touquet the largest motorsport event in the world. The best non-French participant in the 1st Enduropale Touquet 2006 was Dirk Röhm from Beach Racing Team Germany.
Town twinning
Sister cities of Le Touquet are
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Winterberg in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany), since 1966 -
Rixensart in Wallonia (Belgium), since 1970 -
Witney in Oxfordshire (UK), since 1980 -
Sidi Bou Saïd in Tunisia, since 1984 -
Cary (North Carolina) (USA), since 1994 -
Eckbolsheim in Alsace (France), since 1995
Personalities
- Emmanuel Macron , French President, owns the Monéjan house on Avenue Saint-Jean with his wife Brigitte .
- Jacques Delcourt , born on August 21, 1928 in Le Touquet; † November 19, 2011 near Paris. Former President of the French Karate Federation , the European Karate Federation and the World Karate Federation WUKO .
- Christian Ferras , born on June 17, 1933 in Le Touquet; † September 14, 1982 in Paris, major violinist
- Jacques Noyer (1927–2020), French clergyman and Roman Catholic bishop of Amiens.
Web links
- Le Touquet website (also in German)
- Enduropale
- Population data and information about the municipality
proof
- ↑ Arnd Krüger . 'The masses are much more sensitive to the perfection of the whole than to any separate details': The Influence of John Ruskin's Political Economy on Pierre de Coubertin, in: Olympika, 5 (1996) pp. 25-44. [1] ; Arnd Kruger. Coubertin's Ruskianism, in: RK BARNEY et al. (Ed.): Olympic Perspectives. 3rd International Symposium for Olympic Research. London, Ont .: University of Western Ontario 1996, pp. 31-42. [2]
- ↑ Le Touquet Paris-Plage, Station de l'élégance et des sports; http://www.letouquet.com/accueil/decouvrirletouquet/untouquetolympique/unheritageexceptionnel.aspx
- ↑ Le Touquet website ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
