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The Vieux-château de l'île d'Yeu ("Old castle of the Isle of Yeu") is a fortification on Île d'Yeu off the French Atlantic coast in the département of Vendée. [ 1 ] Olivier IV de Clisson , a great builder of castles, undertook the work with the aim of protecting the islanders in the event of foreign invasion.
Île d'Yeu (French pronunciation: [il djø]) or L'Île-d'Yeu, is an island and commune just off the Vendée coast of western France.The island's two harbors, Port-Joinville in the north and Port de la Meule to the south, in a rocky inlet of the southern granite coast, are famous for tuna and lobster fishing, respectively.
In 1765, an engineer named Barbier attempted to place a lantern on the belfry of the Church of Saint-Sauveur; this attempt was unsuccessful, as was a later plan by the Chevalier des Isles, suggested in 1788, that called for the construction of a light tower at Petite-Foule on the island. Legend holds that the bell tower had at one time shown a ...
The Pointe des Corbeaux Lighthouse is a French lighthouse, located on the eponymous point on the Île d'Yeu. Located at the extreme southeastern end of the island, [ 2 ] it was constructed in 1950 to replace an earlier tower destroyed during World War II . [ 3 ]
The canton of L'Île-d'Yeu is an administrative division of the Vendée department, western France. Its borders were not modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in L'Île-d'Yeu. [1] It consists of the following communes: [1] L'Île-d'Yeu
In 1622, King Louis XIII of France spent dinner one night in Croix de Vie, in a mansion located what is now in General de Gaulle street. [ 4 ] Although Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie was three hours from Nantes and ten hours from Paris, the development of railways from the 1880s increasingly allowed holidaymakers to reach the seaside town.
Île d'Yeu Aerodrome or Aérodrome d'Ile d'Yeu - Grand Phare (IATA: IDY, ICAO: LFEY) is an airport located 3.5 km west of Port-Joinville on the island of Île d'Yeu, [1] a commune of the Vendée département in the Pays de la Loire région of France
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