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• Saint-Nazaire has many faces with:

• Its tourism, rich and varied, with the Living Museum, a trip through time, the Swordfish, a submarine afloat open to visitors, Escal'Atlantic a cruise in history and legend of the ship, the Night of the Docks, a choreography of light and shadow by Yann Kersalé, the city of 20 beaches where each one is unique.
• Its economy, a major industrial center, with recognized expertise in shipbuilding and aerospace, it is also the largest port on the Atlantic coast and a major destination tourism industry and culture.

• The city with 20 beaches where each one is unique:

• Pork, Bonne Anse, Grand Traict, Eve, Georama, yellow, city, Courance, Le Petit Traict, Saint-Marc, Trébézy ... All these beaches have in common, they are located in Saint-Nazaire, the city of twenty beaches. Large sandy beaches facing south, creeks cashed-like coves, sheltered by pines and oaks, wild strikes more open to westerly winds. Each is unique and offers different pleasures.
• The city of Saint-Nazaire with two of these beaches, the beach of Mr Hulot in St. Marc and the beach of Villa Martin, means allowing them access to people with disabilities.
• Less popular today, the Petit and Grand Plage Traict experienced early summer crowds of the late 19th century, when "the attractiveness of the bath" became fashionable. On the boulevard along the sea, we build a casino in 1895, even facing the Grande Plage, then called "worldly beach."
• Beach Cities Martin has always favored by swimmers. At the slightest ray of sunshine, it is covered with parasols.
• But it's St. Mark's winning makes all the votes. Immortalized by the cinema and "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" by Jacques Tati, this beach is overlooked by a wooden gazebo which constantly monitors the statue of the director, staring out to sea
• And then there are others, those who have no history: as discrete or Georama Trébézy, like the bold yellow or wearing the jersey is superfluous, as the sports Courance where surfers play waves ; wagons like pigs, or Bonne Anse Lion Rock ... The tip of cities in Yellow the coastal footpath stretches 7 km.
• The list of beaches of Saint-Nazaire: The Yellow Point Chemoulin beach of Little Valley, the Georama, Traict Grand Beach, St. Eugene, Mr. Hulot (or range of Saint-Marc), The Courance, beach Eve, Port Charlotte, Virechat, Trébézy, Pork, Bonne Anse, Beach Lion Rock, Belle Fontaine, Kerloupiots of Kerlédé, Ker Villas, Villa Martin and the beach of Saint-Nazaire.

• Path of Customs:

• Embalmed scents of resin and broom, it contains one of the most precious woods of Saint-Nazaire. Vegetation, mainly Mediterranean, grows here spontaneously. Of pine trees and sea of ​​green oaks and cypress, all these slow-growing trees are for the city, a real green heritage. There is also a vegetation-based atriplex blackthorn and enriched with herbaceous flora. Privileged place for summer walks, it winds between cliffs and beaches and offers magnificent view of the overhangs as the tip of Chemoulin unveiling at the turn of the trail fisheries confined to the foot of the cliff.
• Those who wish to push to the coast pornichetin can not make a stop at the forefront of which is installed Congrigoux a viewpoint that allows him to identify the maritime landscape.

The statue of the American soldier