Grau of Agde
The Grau of Agde is a district of Agde located in edge of sea on left bank of the Herault. It is one of the three localities commune of Agde (Herault) with Tamarissière, on Right Bank, and the Cape of Agde,
Located at the mouth of the Herault, the delta has as of Antiquity be a sure damping for the tradind ships of which those of the Phocéens which were established and founded there upstream thrives it quoted of Agde in the neighborhoods of 600 av. J.C.
Become a picturesque fishing port, it is only towards the end of the XIXe century that Grau of Agde becomes small a Seaside resort.
Grau of Agde was known very a long time of Christendom and this since the medieval time for its Chapelle Notre-Dame of Agenouillade, thus named because of the Miracle which would have occurred there. Indeed, during a terrible storm, the sea having gone up of almost one kilometer in the grounds, whereas all seemed lost, the Virgin Mary would have appeared in prayer on a rock and would have left there the print of its knees in the rock; shortly after the storm was calmed and water was withdrawn.
Notre-Dame of Grau of Agde is also known for her “Mediterranean temporary ponds”, located in old careers of Basalte and rich person of a Flore of patrimonial interest (protected spaces, rare species).
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