Ile De Re Hotels

Ile de Re is an island off the west coast of France near La Rochelle, on the northern side of the Pertuis d'Antioche strait. This island is completely flat; it is 30 km long and 5 km wide. A 2.9 km bridge, completed in 1988, connects it to La Rochelle on the mainland. Administratively, the island is part of the Charente-Maritime in the Poitou-Charentes The island is divided into 10 communes, from East to West: Rivedoux-Plage, La Flotte, Sainte-Marie-de-Re, Saint-Martin-de-Re, Le Bois-Plage-en-Re, La Couarde-sur-Mer, Loix, Ars-en-Re, Saint-Clement-des-Baleines, Les Portes-en-Re. During Roman times, Īle de Re was an archipelago made of three small islands. The space between these small islands was progressively filled, by a combination of human activity (salt fields gained from the sea) and siltage. In the seventh and eighth centuries the island, along with Oleron, formed the Vacetae Insulae or Vacetian Islands, according to the Cosmographia Vaceti being another name for the Vascones, the reference is evidence to Basque (Gascon) settlement or control of the islands by that date. Ile de Re is an island, reached by a long modern bridge, north of La Rochelle in the Charente-Maritime department. Ile de Re is quite a large island - about 30 kilometers long - and is a very popular holiday destination on this sunny coast of western France. It has two distinct characteristics - sandy beaches along the south-western side, and salt and oyster beds along the north-eastern coastline. The more important towns and villages are found along the northern edge, and 'resorts' along the southern edge