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

Geography

Located at fifty kilometers of Bordeaux, in the Moors of the Medoc, Carcans Seaside resort is a enjoying at the same time the the Atlantic Ocean and largest the natural lake of fresh water of France.

It is made up of four villages: Yokes , administrative center, Pouch , located between Forest and Marsh, Maubuisson , tourist resort created in years 1960/1970 in the framework of the installation of the Aquitanian coast in edge of the lake and Yoke-beach , the seaside resort at the edge of the ocean.

History

Yokes owes a great part of sound Histoire and its economy with immense the forest of maritime pines which crosses it: the Moors of the Medoc, where one practiced the Gemmage there during many years.

Today, the balneal Tourisme is the independent source of incomes of the commune.

Administration

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Demography

Places and monuments

The church Saint Martin de Carcans

Founded in 1099, the church of Yokes was the seat of a priory until. At that time it was set up in parish. Yokes was a relay for the pilgrims of Saint Jacques de Compostelle coming from Saintonge. In remembering, the church preserves a statue of Saint Jacques in costume of pilgrim dating from. Unmemorable times, St Martin de Carcans was a place of pilgrimage to Saint Jean Baptiste: one came by far to venerate the head of Saint Jean, stone carved, of Byzantine origin of, carrying hair in hair of horse - work of an alarming realism. A statue of Saint Jean of dominates the furnace bridge of this Saint.

The current church was built in 1870 in the Style neogothic; the furnace bridge of the same time is out of polychrome marble. The Organ of the chorus, of German invoice, was assembled in 1971, at the time of the restoration of the church.

to see the photographs of this church

Personalities related to the commune

• Henri Rene Sabarot, current mayor of the commune. Regional adviser (CPNT) of Aquitaine of 1998 to 2004. President of the federation of the hunters of the Gironde.

See too

• Lake Hourtin and Yokes
• Médoc
• Landes of Gascogne
• Communes of the Gironde
• Big lakes landais

External bonds

• Site of the tourist office

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

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