An amazing story
This map relates to both history and environment

A complex network of dykes and canals protects this region where nature prevails throughout the year.

Discover the different stages in the draining process by zooming on the map. The date when each 'Prise' * was reclaimed is indicated.

"With primitive tools the former inhabitants of the marshland reclaimed and shaped the land they handed down to their descendants :
land sprung from the sea"
P.BOURGOUIN
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Map - History

* "Prises" : refers to the 5600-ha stretch of marshland reclaimed from the sea by means of dykes built on the "mizottes" or water meadows, in the bay of L'Aiguillon since the 18th century.