With its seafront dotted with hotels, beaches, maritime pine forests and above all the magnificent fine sandy beach of Les Sables d'Olonne, this is the perfect starting point for a wonderful seaside holiday.
In 1868, the town was linked to Paris by rail. It then took 12 hours to get to the seaside of Les Sables d'Olonne and gorge your lungs with iodine.
Of course, you have to discover the town from the embankment, which offers a view of the enchanting seafront, but you also have to follow the paths inside to see the architectural fruits of the history of this beautiful town. The Presidents district was created at the end of 1870, a district in which the local and summer bourgeoisie invested, making the area a chic and fashionable place to live with its superb villas with enchanting names... As shown, for example, by the Hôtel Calme des Pins, built in 1900, a real jewel of the district, which has retained all the charm of its seaside heyday... Passers-by will be struck by all the decorative refinement that testifies to the inspiration that the architects of the time had in constructing such a building.
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At the end of the 19th century, the accommodation on offer was expanding on the embankment following the development of sea bathing from England. The seaside town of Les Sables d'Olonne had already thought through its accommodation offer: rooms, nicely furnished flats, hotels by the sea and increasingly facing the sea, where it was possible to find cheap and functional accommodation.
