Loix

Loix is a common French, located on the Ile de Ré in the department of the Charente-Maritime and the area Poitou-Charentes.

  • Its inhabitants is Loidais, Loidaises.

Geography

  • more the small village and small port of the Ile de Ré, on the northern coast of the island in the middle of the salt-water marshes and marshes, an island in the island.
  • low Shore, rollers, bay and small beach in the South East (Pit of Loix) .
  • At sea, a tower (headlight) : Ilates.

In the middle of the saline Marais of the Ile de Ré, écomusée explains the history of the white gold which made formerly the richness of the island, the life and the knowledge to make salt makers, the clever feeding system of the basins. One counted approximately 1.500 salt makers 100 years ago, they were gone down again to 50. For a few years, young salt makers have taken again abandoned marshes and modernize them, but the method remains identical. One counts currently more than 100 salt makers.

Activity

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • the place of the Church (Holy Catherine) .
  • the port.
  • the mill with tide, (on the port) .
  • the battery of Grouin (1742) was equipped with three pieces of artillery.
  • Écomusée of the Salt-water Marshes, marshes salt-water.

Bonds

  • the site of Loix.
  • the site of Écomusée.
  • the site of the Association of the Friends of the Port of Loix.

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