Village Naturiste Cap d'Agde
The Village Naturiste or Quartier Naturiste is a 120 hectare large nudist Plant in the east of Cap d'Agde , a district of the French city of Agde on the Mediterranean coast in the department of Herault . It is a partially urban settlement complex with two hotels and a campsite . Up to 40,000 residents and tourists live in the Village Naturiste during the holiday season . 1.5 million visitors, including day visitors, visit the site every year. Village Naturiste is the most visited naturist complex in the world. The fenced-in Village Naturiste is open from late March to mid-October. To enter the fenced area, an entrance fee has to be paid. The Süddeutsche Zeitung described the Village Naturist as the “world capital of the naked”. To the north is the Reserve Naturelle Nationale du Bagnas nature reserve .
History and site description
The Village Naturiste goes back to a campsite built by Rene Oltra in 1956 . This developed into a 38 hectare, separately fenced area, the Center Helio-Marin Oltra (CHM) with its own access control. In the early 1970s, the city of Agde planned and built the three large apartment blocks Port Ambonne , Heliopolis and Port Nature with up to five floors on the drawing board . The three-story semi - circular building Port Ambonne opens to the west to the Port Ambonne marina . The five-story, Y-shaped so-called hill house Port Nature is located between the port of Port Ambonne and the sea. The semi-circular building Heliopolis opens onto the beach and is located east of the other two concrete blocks. Row houses are located around the three apartment blocks in the midst of green spaces. In the buildings of Port Ambonne and Heliopolis there are supply options of all kinds. On the area of the Village Naturiste there are banks, a post office, doctor's offices, hairdressing salons, several restaurants, supermarkets, retail shops, laundromats and three swimming pools.
The nudist beach from the entrance to the marina Port Ambonne is two kilometers long. The sandy beach slopes gently towards the sea and is therefore safe for children to use. Another 400 m, which belong to the Reserve Naturelle Nationale du Bagnas nature reserve , are also used as a nudist beach. From the subsequent Marseillan Plage de Marseillan , nudism is prohibited. There are beach bars and restaurants on the beach; sailing boats, loungers and parasols can be rented.
Today the holiday village has also become the stronghold of swingers . There are several sex shops , five swingers clubs and a BDSM club. The quarter lost its approval from the Fédération Française de Naturisme in 2004 due to the presence of swingers. On a stretch of beach, which is also called Baie des cochons ( piggy beach ) and belongs to the Reserve Naturelle Nationale du Bagnas , sexual acts take place on the beach and in the dunes during the main visitor time in summer. Even Google Maps shows this stretch of beach, which is only 100 m wide, by name. Because of the presence of swingers, there were intermittent protests from some naturists.
Center Helio-Marin Oltra
The Center Helio-Marin Oltra (CHM) campsite , later renamed Center Naturiste Oltra , has 2,400 spaces for tents , caravans and campers . There are also some chalets on the site. The CHM offers sports fields, a children's playground, snack bars, sales stands, a first aid station, laundry and a multi-purpose tent construction for disco, dance events, and gymnastics.
Others
The most internationally known visitor is the French writer Michel Houellebecq . In his 1998 novel Les Particules élémentaires , published in German in 2001 as Elementarteilchen (novel) , he describes the nudist resort as a place where couples swap partners and lonely single men participate in sex.
literature
- Lee Baxandall: World Guide to Nude Beaches and Recreation . Harmony Books, New York 1983.
- Without author: FKK 2004 travel guide . Orwid Verlag, Elstertrebnitz 2004.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Not entirely without Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 5, 2010, accessed on September 9, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d e FKK 1994 Travel Guide, pp. 109–113
- ↑ Lee Baxandall: World Guide to Nude Beaches and Recreation . Harmony Books, New York 1983, p. 154.
- ^ Quartier Naturiste du Cap d'Agde: Parlons en sans tabou! Hérault Tribune, September 16, 2010, accessed October 2, 2016
- ↑ Baie des cochons: bienvenue sur la plage libertine du Cap d'Agde Les Inrocks, July 2, 2012, accessed on October 2, 2016
- ↑ Nudists fight for bare essentials as swingers invade holiday colony The Independent of September 23, 2010, accessed November 15, 2016
- ↑ Trouble in the “Village Naturiste” ORF from September 27, 2010, accessed on November 15, 2016
- ^ Agent provocateur , The Guardian, November 6, 2005, accessed October 2, 2016
- ↑ Swinger clubs and false vitae - Houellebecq remains a mystery n-tv from October 2, 2006, accessed on October 2, 2016
Coordinates: 43 ° 17 ′ 43.8 " N , 3 ° 31 ′ 31.4" E