[Daily dose of Geography]^Port Grimaud - "Venice of France" 🇫🇷

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📌Port Grimaud - "Venice of France"

We all know Venice in Italy, but there is another fantastic place - "Venice of France". French architect François Spoerre had an idea in his childhood to create his own Venice. As a child, he spent hours in front of a model of coastal towns in a museum in Zurich, and then devoted himself to studying the architecture of the port..

imageSource: https://www.grimaud-provence.com/en/discover/port-grimaud-side/

At his expense, in 1960, he bought a piece of land in front of St. Trope Bay, near the city of Port Grimaud, where the only inhabitants were mosquitoes and seagulls. Works on strengthening of the coast, coating of channels, construction of houses and berths began. The works were completed in 1967 and the first inhabitants and first yachts arrived in his city. The architect himself spent his entire life in this city where he died in 1999 and was buried in a local church.

imageSource: https://www.grimaud-provence.com/en/discover/port-grimaud-side/

Port Grimaud today occupies an area of about 90 hectares and has about 2,000 inhabitants. All the homes in the city, with 1108 of them, are privately owned and have a place for parking boats. This city is rightly called Venice because it is built entirely on water. You can only visit the city exclusively by boat and all its beauty can only be experienced from the water because the entire coast is in private ownership.

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