La Baule les Pins
La Baule is a seaside resort of Loire-Atlantique in Pays de Loire region famous for its long beach lined with palaces and villas. La Baule is defined as the most beautiful beach in Europe, it has to be said that with its 9 kilometers long it has enough to make more than one green with envy ! Appreciated for its particularly fine white sand, La Baule beach is located at the end of the Pouliguen bay.
In fact, this beach, which is one of the largest on the continent, is shared between the municipalities of La Baule-Escoublac, Pouliguen and Pornichet. La Baule historically is the last of the seaside resorts of the Guérande peninsula, after Saint-Nazaire, Le Croisic, Pornichet and Le Pouliguen!
A famous and and chic seaside resort, La Baule les Pins puits in a line its beautiful villas, hidden in the pine forest, on a territory that was once a flood-prone maritime meadow called "the bole". Originally, "The Bole" is nothing more than a locality of the town of Escoublac, a heath of pines bordered by the sea. In 1879, everything will change when two representatives of the Compagnie du railway from Paris to Orléans will be interested in this place.
The tourist potential of "The Bole" jumps at them and they decide to build there a seaside resort as it is built everywhere in the country at this time. Everything is to be done and a few years are enough for several villas and shops to come out of the ground.
The exceptional setting of La Baule les Pins is appreciated by all thanks to its huge bay which allows to admire the ocean while enjoying the beautiful beach and its fine sand. Fifty years later, in the 1960s, tourism exploded and La Baule expanded to open up to an ever wider clientele. This is why many buildings have invaded the waterfront, spoiling a little, we must admit, the original beauty of the site.
The bay is entering the club "the most beautiful bays in the world" in November 2011! The Club of the most beautiful bays in the world currently has about thirty members, among which: the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, the Bay of Somme, the Gulf of Morbihan in France but also the bay of San Francisco and the bay of Ha-Long, and now Pornichet Bay, La Baule, Pouliguen.