Fault-on-Sea

the Fault-on-Sea is a common French, located in the department of the the Vendée and the area Pays of the Loire.

Geography

The Fault-on-Sea constitutes small coastal strips of land of the extreme-south of the Vendée.

In the West, the commune is bordered, on 8 kilometers, by an uninterrupted sand beach. It thus naturally became a balneal small station. In the East, it borders the river of the Lay which separates it from the small port of the Pivot-on-Sea. Two bridges (a pedestrian, for cars) connect the two common binoculars.

South in north, one can divide the commune into three zones:

in the south: the Natural reserve of birds of the Point of Arçay (forest of pine S).
in the center: the village.
in north: arable lands.

History

Before the Middle Ages, it had nothing on this site there but the sea.
the sand band which carries the commune is made up after the Middle Ages with in particular the draining of the Marais poitevin.
Some farms and houses of sinners appeared at the XIXe century (and front?) on this Moor sandy and wild.
Of the balneal villas was built at the beginning of the century, probably with the arrival of the Railroad in the common neighbor of the Pivot-on-Sea.
Construction of Dam S against the sea starting from the beginning of the century (?).
Doubly of the bridge with the Pivot.
the Fault became small a Seaside resort popular of the south of the Vendée.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Vendée

External bonds

Official site of the Fault on Sea
Fault-on-Sea on the site of the national geographical Institute
Fault-on-Sea on the site of INSEE
Fault-on-Sea on the site of Quid
Localization of the Fault-on-Sea on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane of the Fault-on-Sea on Mapquest
Site on the Fault on Sea

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