Porge

Porge is a common French, located in the department of the the Gironde and the area Aquitaine.

Geography

Porge lays out of two Plage S supervised on the Atlantic Ocean: one with the Porge-Ocean, the other at the Naturist village of the Jenny who was created in the Eighties.

Porge is in extreme cases between the Pays of Buch and the Médoc.

History

Etymology

The commune of Porge was called formerly “Porge in Buch”, which was said in Latin Porticus de Bogio .
Porticus means “door” or “porch”, and Bogio is relating to the people which are established in Pays of Buch at the time Gallo-Roman E: the Boïates, whose name will give Buch . Porge was thus “the door of the Country of Buch” when one came from the Médoc.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The Jenny

Porge is remarkably inserted in the modernity of the company of the 21e century: the summer, the number of French and foreign naturists remaining with the Field of the Jenny exceeds the number of inhabitants of the commune, thus doing of Porge one of the gravitational stations for this lifestyle under development growing in all Europe.

The residential Field Naturiste of the Jenny is appreciated for the quality of its equipment, the absence of accumulation of the residents thanks to the intervals between the Bungalow S and at vast spaces left in a state of nature or gardened, grace also to its very naturist establishment into full Forêt with the variation with any urbanization.

Sport

Porge is also a Spot of surfing very snuffed Surf eurs.
There exist also several sports associations: Football, Tennis, Judo, Badminton… etc
the summer a pedestrian race and a race Cycliste are organized.
Another association (Sports Leisures Porge) organizes activities of raids nature throughout the year and develops the practice of the Canoë on the channel of the pond S.
the construction of a sports hall multiactivities in 2007 will allow the development of sports like the Volley-ball, the Hand ball and the Basket-ball which can be currently practiced only at the beautiful season.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Gironde

External bonds

Porge on the site of the national geographical Institute
Porge on the site of INSEE
Porge on the site of Quid
Localization of Porge on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Porge on Mapquest

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