Mimizan

Mimizan is a common Frenchwoman, located in the department of the Landes and the area Aquitaine. Its inhabitants are called the Mimizannais. The city is divided between Mimizan-Borough and Mimizan-Beach.

Geography

Mimizan is a Seaside resort of the coast landaise, located in the Pays of Born. It is called the “Pearl of the Côte of Money”. The current of Mimizan is the outfall of the Lake Aureilhan and throws in the Atlantic Ocean. Presence of the ponds of Malloueyre.

History

  • the sector of the old church was one of the seaports most active of the Atlantique coast before the 7th century. It was then filled by the advanced sands.

  • With the the Middle Ages, Mimizan was set up in Sauveté (crowned asylum created by the Church for the protection of weak). Its delimitation had been carried out by nine monumental terminals (terminals of sauveté), in the shape of pyramids. Today, only five remain and are classified with the historic buildings.

  • the city was also a stage on the littoral way of the way of Saint-Jacob. Size and magnificence of the old church (partly disappeared) watch importance of the place at that time. The Bell-tower porch of Mimizan, cut down by a hurricane in 1770, was gigantic so much so that one saw it since the sea. The abbot Departure, in front of this oversize bell-tower, concluded extremely logically that it had many functions of which very few nuns. It is necessary any to think that it was about a " amer" , a coastal reference mark to facilitate navigation at sea.

  • the Belle Time saw the birth of the Seaside resort Mimizan-Beach (which was initially called Mimizan-the-Baths) thanks to the arrival of the railroad (disappeared today), with the vogue of the sea bathings and the benefits of the air iodized on the health of the tuberculous.

  • the March 20th 1905 the journalist and poet Maurice Martin inaugurates the expression of Côte of Money in front of a floor of journalists and notable local traversing Lette Gascon S and villages in the memorable caravan.

  • the June 16th 1929, the aviators Rotating crops, Lefèvre and Lotti, started from Old Orchard Beach in the United States on board the “Bird Canary”, carry out an emergency landing on the Northern beach. They become thus first French to connect by plane America to Europe.

Administration

Demography

Economy

  • Production of paper pulp (Paper mills of Gascogne)
  • Forestry development, sawmills, production of parquet floors and skirting
  • Tourism (Seaside resort)

Twinning

, to see

Places and monuments

  • the bell-tower-porch of the old church of Mimizan, classified with the world heritage of humanity by UNESCO.

  • five pyramids of sauveté remaining, built in Garluche and going back to 1009, classified historic buildings.

  • to note the post office Art Déco of Mimizan-Borough, and the old vault out of wooden of Mimizan-Beach. Casino.

Saint Jacques de Compostelle

The terminal located close to the abbey of Mimizan announces the distance of 1000 km which separate it from Saint-Jacob de Compostelle on the Voie of Soulac Littoral Aquitanian.

Events

  • Every year, at the end of August, takes place the festivals of the city. It is the occasion for all the inhabitants to find itself during four to five days. Many demonstrations take place on this occasion: Bodega, election of the Queen of the festivals and her buffoon, fireworks, animation for the children.

  • Mimizan has a Arène which accommodates famous the races landaises where the spacers play with the young cows without putting them at death.

Personalities related to the commune

  • the creative one of mode Coco Chanel came to remain with the castle of Woolsack de Mimizan, on the edges of the Lac of Aureilhan.

References

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