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Agde is located on the Hérault river, 4 kilometres (2 miles) from the Mediterranean Sea, and 750 kilometres (466 miles) from Paris. The Canal du Midi connects to the Hérault river at the Agde Round Lock ("L'Écluse Ronde d'Agde") just north of Agde, and the Hérault flows into the Mediterranean at
Le Grau d'Agde [fr]. Agde station has high speed rail connections to Paris Lille Genova, Perpignan plus Spain, and regional services to Narbonne, Montpellier and Avignon.
Agde (525 BCE) is one of the oldest towns in France, after Béziers (575 BCE) and Marseille (600 BCE).[4]
Agde (Agathe Tyche, "good fortune") was a 5th-century BCE Greek colony settled by Phocaeans from Massilia. The Greek name was Agathe (Ancient Greek: Ἀγάθη).[5][6] The symbol of the city, the bronze Ephebe of Agde, of the 4th century BCE, recovered from the fluvial sands of the Hérault, was joined in December 2001 by two Early Imperial Roman bronzes, of a child and of Eros, which had possibly been on their way to a villa in Gallia Narbonensis when they were lost in a shipwreck.
Development
The inlet in the Hérault river, Grau d'Agde, became from the Antique to the Eighteenth century period the most important port in this occitanian region of the Mediterranée for trade.[7]
Cardinal Richelieu undertook the construction of a roadstead for an Harbour, a strategic point in the Mediterranean area. The work, made difficult by the gradual silting up of the coastline, was abandoned after the death of the Cardinal. Fort Richelieu remains in place.[7]
At the end of the eighteenth century, when tall sail ships gave way to motor merchant ships, Agde changed its activity towards the exploitation of the land, market gardening, olives and fruits. The local viticulture then experienced is one of its greatest moments of prosperity until the phylloxera.[7][8]
Actual shore developpment began in the 60's following first waterfront in Grau d'Agde.[9] The main marina (Port) was designed next to the location of the cape small fishing port (Cap d'Agde). The fishing port of the Hérault river has been modernised with its professional fish market hall[10]. The river's shipyards, which are mixed with pleasure boats and small fishing boats, succeeded the wooden boat yards. "1960 : The president's plan is actualy to make from the coast of Occitania the "French Florida".[11][12]
The heads of the inter-ministerial mission developped collective facilities to attract the greatest number of tourists: holiday centres and camps of the nationalised PTT, EDF, SNCF; holiday villages houses with belgian, netherland, german investments. Campsites are created, one with the first naturist settement in France. About leisure, tennis courts, discotheques, amusement parks (an aquatic park) are built. The National Forestry Office with arboriculturists (e.g. Vilmorin) contributed to the creation of green spaces in the resort, and reforestation. Hundreds of thousands of seedlings are then distributed free of charge to individuals.[13]
The naturist campsite became an important tourist complex outside the city, and in its vicinity the tennis courts was the major theme for the development of housing estates.
Since 2007 the Sodéal (Economic development society of Agde and the coast (70% of capital owned by the town) ammenages the marinas on the Hérault river and the shore, main one Le Port de Cap d'Agde.[14]
Urban sprawl has been taking place for first twenty years of the 21th century between Le Cap and Grau d'Agde, and this latter place is densifying from its postwar existing hollydays habitat on small plots among large empty ones.
After the installation of basic urban networks, going further, in the same time, cycling infrastructure is reamenaged because of car traffic jams in the 2010s. And municipal car parks receive solar panels in 2017 2019.[15][16]
2021-2024 Project for extended railway station and the marina on the Canal du Midi started with destroying the retail buildings around Hôtel Riquet, the Agde offices of the canal's founder.
Access to the city tunnel under the railroad line was opened in 2023, after two years of construction..[17]
Historical act in Agde : French Clergy and property
In the history of Roman Catholicism in France, the Council of Agde was held 10 September 506 at Agde, in Saint-André church, under the presidency of Caesarius of Arles. It was attended by thirty-five bishops, and its forty-seven genuine canons dealt "with ecclesiastical discipline". One of its canons (the seventh), forbidding ecclesiastics to sell or alienate the property of the church from which they derived their living, seems to be the earliest mention of the later system of benefices.[18][19]
Population
Agde's inhabitants are called Agathois.
Historical population
Year
Pop.
±% p.a.
1793
6,744
—
1800
6,744
+0.00%
1806
7,639
+2.10%
1821
7,726
+0.08%
1831
8,202
+0.60%
1836
8,230
+0.07%
1841
8,251
+0.05%
1846
8,884
+1.49%
1851
9,115
+0.51%
1856
9,439
+0.70%
1861
9,747
+0.64%
1866
9,586
−0.33%
1872
8,829
−1.36%
1876
8,251
−1.68%
1881
8,170
−0.20%
1886
8,446
+0.67%
1891
7,389
−2.64%
1896
8,478
+2.79%
Year
Pop.
±% p.a.
1901
9,533
+2.37%
1906
8,435
−2.42%
1911
9,265
+1.89%
1921
8,325
−1.06%
1926
9,360
+2.37%
1931
9,605
+0.52%
1936
9,242
−0.77%
1946
7,592
−1.95%
1954
7,897
+0.49%
1962
8,751
+1.29%
1968
10,184
+2.56%
1975
11,605
+1.88%
1982
13,107
+1.75%
1990
17,583
+3.74%
1999
19,988
+1.43%
2007
21,104
+0.68%
2012
24,651
+3.16%
2017
28,609
+3.02%
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
Wineyards in La Roquille, foreground Mont St LoupCooperative winery, (1936-1998). 2022 West facade maintained, rehabilitated into résidence, offices
The vineyards in Agde are among the oldest in France.[24]Viticulturists, winegrowers experienced the problems of viticulture in the 19th century with diseases. However, while Aramon was able to save the production situation (see the electric pump) in the region by cultivation near the sea,[25] the intensive production of wine in the colony of Algeria caused both the low profitability and the low quality of Agde wines among Languedoc zone. Production began to decline. And production has plummeted since the station was planned, as housing needs space. The Richemer Cellars were born from the merger of the cooperative cellars of Agde (1936) and Marseillan (1934).[26] However, tourist festivals are still present in the 21st century.[27] Tourist wine sales too.[28] And if the last vineyard of Bagnas is now very small below Château Maraval[29] with the Meyer distillery in ruins, walking in is a planed tourist-office leisure nowdays; its wine is better for "connoisseurs".[30][31] This "Wine tourism" has been in full development for several years.[24]
The wine-growing area of the Bagnas reserve was reduced in 2019 with the urbanization of the border running from Château Maraval down to the naturist camp: the most expensive detached villas in the town are here, as well as those at the top of the Mont St Martin with panoramic sea views, which also had vineyards starting at Richelieu beach that disappeared with the urbanisation of 1970.
Retail parks suburb belt
Professional fish market Grau d'Agde.Statue of the Ephebe, roundabout above the Béziers-Sète expressway.
East of town, an area for the old wine traffic via the Canal du Midi and its old railway traffic, more recently there were stocks for the trade in building-materials.
On road towards Sète, since the 1970's, a specific area for building-materials stocks.
Since 2OOO, many allotments of houses reaches those Economic Activities Zones [fr].
Marinas
The wreck of the fishing ship Espérance 1881 at the shipyards of Grau d'Agde on August 1, 2015. It was built in 1881 at AgdeLifeguard boats, quay of Harbourmaster officeLift for boats on the dry dock Avant-PortBlocks of buildings on Ile des Pêcheurs, underground garages
The Port of Cap d'Agde (main marina) was excavated following the Racine mission.
The marina is delimited by the buildings that border it, each one with 100 apartments and around those the housing estates of 200 villas, and in the 2 cases hotels added.[34]
The marina has a single entrance, due to the south-north marine currents that silt it up. It is made up of two distinct parts, built around accessible and non-accessible islands.
The part between accessible Ile des Loisirs and non-accessible Ile St Martin is the part of the harbor where the boat's mooring ring to the quay is private and sold with the villa or apartment.
The part between Ile St Martin and accessible Ile des Pêcheurs is the part of the harbor where the boat's mooring ring is rented to the harbor master.[35]
Plus exists Port Ambonne as Port Lano naturist camp facility near heliport for sea safety operations, and the Berges de l'Hérault were the historic amenaged Herault riverbanks.[36]
Overall the car must be available for yachtsmen, and some of the places to live are built with an underground garage.
Fort de Brescou and lighthouse at the end of the pier
Houses on Ile St-Martin below buildings on Mont St-Martin and the green Mont St-Loup on the right
Main landmark in the marina : the campanile of the former Cap center 1970
Harbormaster office (Avant-Port)
Nautical center ending Richelieu beach side
Naturist complex
Marina Ambonne and naturist complex buildings (right)Marina Ambonne, an in-racks dry port in Port Lano, naturist complex on the north side
After the creation of a camping in the farm for nudists receiving Belgian, German and Dutch families, the beach was officially designated as a naturist beach in 1973.[37]
The first development was the construction of apartments, stores and swimming pools in a paid-entry area. These massive concrete buildings did not comply with town-planning regulations, and the huge buildings have global form O and Y. Nudity was legal on the beach. A small shopping area was set up before the entrance, and housing estates grew up on the seaward side, filling the land up to the vacation villages of 1975.
This complex is aside Port Lano and its marina.
Architecture
Town centre, pedestrian areaGenouillade chapel (XVIth century)Bishops's mill, (basis XIIIth Century-2010)Saint-Joseph Bridge over the Canal du MidiChâteau Laurens and the river Hérault, (basis 1898-2023)Battlements (basis XIIIth Century)Pedestrian lane from La Clape (Museum) to La Roquille (beach), concrete tunnel support for flower trees "charmilleTony Garnier" style, (1970's)Maréchaux Bridge and the Hérault River, (1969)
Agde is known for the distinctive black basalt used in local buildings such as the cathedral of Saint Stephen, built in the 12th century to replace a 9th-century Carolingian edifice built on the foundations of a fifth-century Romanchurch.
Bishop Guillaume fortified the cathedral's precincts and provided it with a 35-metre donjon (keep). The Romanesque cloister of the cathedral was demolished in 1857.
The sanctuary of Notre-Dame-du-Grau was once an ancient temple, for dévotion in the Antique. The Agenouillade (Kneel) is built after a miraculous prayer by Our Lady (Mary, mother of Jesus) to avoid flooding in Agde in the Sixteenth century.[38]
Near by the Agde Round Lock, aside the rail-way (with a special station for a private stop), Château Laurens is an splendid furnished villa, dandy residence. Inside is a gothic style "salon de concert" with original 19th century stained glass windows from Bézier's school.
[39]
All like some wine châteaux of Bordeaux were built in classic style due to winer richess, this one comming from an Agde wineyard income is in eclectic style,
[40]
it is the most beautiful concrete building in Occitania from Belle Epoque.[41]
But if it includes a electric power plant, it does not include a producer wine cellar.
Cap d'Agde, footbridge from the Flanerie shopping mall to the Port, in the background the old city centre with annexes, (1970's)Concrete bridge over the Hérault route 612, (1976).[42] The 19th century chapel station of the Way of the Cross of Christ is exactly under the bridge behind the foot of the left bank bridge pier
The urban planning of the 60s in France for the new towns separates car traffic and pedestrian-cyclist traffic with some footbridges. For French resorts architecture, "Mediterranean style" sets the mood.[43][44][11] This vision of the popular vacation with its french social side is associated with the real estate. In this area, the way was given by the neighbor town Sète for its after-war development, mainly with the retail area of its harbour.[45]
The Bishops's Mill is now (2010) a cultural exhibition center, it was " a 13th century building and former flour mill rehabilitated in the last century as a hydraulic factory and then as a "sardine factory".[46]
The cooperative winery is created in 1936, but merged in 1998 with the one of Marseillan,
activity in Marseillan, traffic on Beziers-Sète road.[47] It is transformed into offices and apartments in 2021.[48]
Former National and Municipal Police Station is founded in the old building of National Police in the town-center in 2004, the new one is an extension.
And the new establishment replacing the old one in Cap center is open in 2020 (cost 1,2 million€). [49][50]
Ephebe Museum, (1987)
The Musée de l'Éphebe was inaugurated in 1987 after a series of clandestine archaeological excavations of the Roman villa in front of the arena, culminating in the first official underwater archaeological museum.[51] The modernist movement in the town design can be seen in social housing as well as institutional buildings such as retirement homes, hospital and hôtels.[52]
New congress centre (2019)Agde Sport Palace (2001)
In 2000's the International Style is associated with wealth, and it appears in new construction sites with glass facades or rhythmically perforated metal facades, this becomes the decided new rule for the appearance of buildings to improve the value of the city with the aim of attracting more prosperous people to live there.[53]
The new municipal and departmental swimming pool L'Archipel, cité de l'eau, is created in 2011, a wooden structure, glass roof.[54]
The new Cap d'Agde Center was designed with first its casino and second its congress center. The designer is Jean-Michel Wilmotte (architect), with its twin Spanish-style esplanades (Barcelona) (2018 the first one, 2020 the twins), tall circular buildings with large crenellations on the upper floors plus interior gardens, a new annex of the town hall, a new post office, a new congress centre (architect Philippe Bonon [55] and Hervé di Rosa), a new tourist office, ground floors a shopping area (housing starts from 2020 to 2024).[56][57]
Circular Casino Barrière (architect Philippe Bonon), is the first built with the today redevelopment of the Ile des Loisirs.
[58]
The Maison des Savoirs, former Agde high school transfered at Paul Emile Victor school in Cap d'Agde site, is a Médiathèque, it is the transformation of the old school (built in the 19th century), the first phase was designed in 2000 by Denis Milhé, the second phase is that of Philippe Bonon, opened in 2020.[55]
The theatre, associated with the media library of the Maison des Savoirs has been rehabilitated since 2020,[59] the whole renovation of the esplanade starting from the Hérault and ending at the theatre will end in 2024.
Cap d'Agde Port traboule in the buidings, between boutiques and restaurants
Cap d'Agde iron bridge over road Beziers-Sète
Beach La Roquille, "front de mer" restaurants and sandwicheries, architecture 1970
History of the communities in Agde
Spanish community
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Jewish community
It is assumed that a Jewish community was established in the town around the sixth century AD. During the Council of Agde, assembled by the Catholic church in 506 AD, Christian laymen and ecclesiastics were prohibited from eating with Jews or hosting them. This prohibition suggests that the town Jews held good relations with their town neighbours. It is also assumed that the Jewish community was never large, since it did not own a cemetery and buried their dead in Béziers, three miles away.[61]
The Jewish name of the city was Agdi, or Akdi (אגדי).[62]
"In February 1939, Agde had a population of 9,000 when the army decided to build a camp at its gates to accommodate 25,000 Spanish “Retirada” republicans. When war was declared, they were replaced by soldiers from the Czechoslovak army, joined a year later by workers from Indochina. In May-June 1940, the town welcomed a large number of French refugees, as well as Belgians, Poles and Czechoslovakians, (including Jews), many of whom were interned in the camp."[64]
During World War II, about two thousand Jews from Germany and Austria were sent to the camp near the town; most were deported on 24 August 1942.[65]
D-Day Memorial
Sport and leisure
Agde golf course (seen from Mt St Martin, back to the housing estates) (basis 1980, extension 2013)Swimming pool Cité de l'eau, overall shape Japanese helmet design (deliberate, inspired by comic book manga). Foreground bus station. 2017
In 1973 "Cap-d'Agde was the temple of the yellow ball in the camp created by Pierre Barthès, before being the Mecca of naturism".[11]
In 1993 the Mediterranean Games began in Cap d'Agde. To celebrate the memory of first 1601 historic tournament in town, in 2001 the city of Agde organised major festivities bringing together all the jousting societies of the region.[66]
Agde joutes, Belle EpoqueRacing Club Agathois, 1929
^The sculpture rebaptised Amphitrite formerly stood on the façade of the Palais du Trocadéro, built for the Exposition Universelle (1878) and demolished to make way for the Exposition of 1937. She was preserved and offered to the city, where she now symbolizes Agde's maritime vocation. Base Palissy: Statue : Amphitrite, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
^Berthet, Fabienne; Bartoli, Pascale (2020). "Seaside architecture" (in French). A societal context : The 1950s saw the emergence of new lifestyles. Post-war social advances, and in particular paid vacations, meant that tourism was now accessible to all. Both a result of and a catalyst for the social upheavals of the "Trente Glorieuses", tourism promoted social progress and a desire for individual freedom outside working hours. In practice, rising incomes generated a new attraction for vacations, which naturally focused on seaside and coastal resorts. Under the gentle name of heliotropism, encouraged by a culture that values shellfish, whole crowds flock to the coast, eager to sample the pleasures of the beach. Aware of the economic stakes involved in tourism, the public authorities introduced a policy to encourage this major expansion, which was mainly focused on 3 regions: Languedoc-Roussillon, Alpes Maritimes and Var, each of which developed its own model based on its history, appeal and assets. Three models : On the Languedoc coast, the changes accompanied in 1963 by the interministerial Racine mission recognized the principle of six tourist units along 180 km of coastline. Saint-Cyprien, Leucate - Le Barcarès, Gruissan, Cap d'Agde, La Grande Motte and Port Camargue, separated by vast natural areas, were created. The aim is to build, over 20 years, the infrastructure and 500 tourist beds needed to develop an economy that is lacking in this part of the country. Nearly a million holidaymakers are expected in what will be nicknamed the Florida or French California, and is now the emblem of popular tourism sites.
^"Agde coup dur pour les plaisanciers" (in French). 17 January 2023. Delegate of the management of the marinas of Cap d'Agde and the sites on the Hérault river for a period of 20 years, Sodéal will discuss this Wednesday morning, during the first meeting since 2017 of the Local Committee of Permanent Users of the Ports of Cap d'Agde (Clupp), an increase in its tariffs of around 12%.
^"L'AGGLO Hérault Méditerranée : aménagement du quartier de la méditerranéenne" (in French). 2 April 2021. ECONOMICS The demolition of the buildings located on the 8.5 hectares industrial wasteland in the Mediterranean [is done in 2023]. The GGL-Proméo consortium will be responsible for the development of this space. The creation of this new centre of attractiveness will be a major challenge in the context of the urban project to enhance the heart of the city of Agde and accompanies the other operations carried out in parallel, namely the creation of the river port on the Canal du Midi, the restoration of Château Laurens and the creation of a multimodal interchange hub at the railway station [...] A functional mix of permanent housing, tourist accommodation and a programme of offices, shops and services on 35,000 m² [...] A training centre, the future headquarters of the agglomeration and the centre for conservation and studies in archaeology [...] Requalification of the Hôtel Riquet along the Canal du Midi and the hangar located to the south along the railway tracks, into a vast, multi-functional hall, at the centre of the flows of the district and the train station [...] Flood risk particularly impacting the site: the floating habitat and the suspended city. Floating habitat: the creation of a body of water is planned. The city suspended: all new constructions, excluding the rehabilitation of buildings deemed heritage and preserved, are planned on stilts with the first surfaces developed from the 1st floor [...] A development planned by 2024 [...] The balance sheet of the transaction is balanced at approximately €11.5 million excluding VAT. The selected consortium also undertakes to pay a contribution of €1 million to the local authority for the financing of the railway footbridge that the agglomeration community must build to link the Agde station, the future Multimodal Interchange Hub, to the Mediterranean quarter, so that the district is a real gateway to the territory from the regional and national rail network.
^Meaning 1 /10 tax-payer may vote in mayor election, deciding the communal budget and urban projects.
^"pump and silo for grapes" (in French). The engineer-architect Paul Brès patented this system for his reinforced concrete silo tank, he would have considered this silo to be a kind of "cathedral" because it was visible from afar. Excerpts from the label of the exhibition LA CAVE COOPÉRATIVE D'AGDE, DE SA CRÉATION À NOS JOURS", Office du Tourisme, Agde, 09/2020.
^"LES CAVES RICHEMER – CAVEAU D'AGDE" (in French). The Richemer Cellars were born from the merger of the cooperative cellars of Agde and Marseillan. They bring together 350 winegrowers on a vineyard of 1500ha and an annual production of 100,000hl with 65% white wines, 25% rosés and 10% red wines. They owe their name to a legend: Henri de Richet, a winegrower from Marseillan who is said to have made his fortune in the wine trade, thanks to maritime trade. He was soon nicknamed "Henri de Richemer". They bring together 350 winegrowers on a vineyard of 1500ha and an annual production of 100,000hl with 65% white wines, 25% rosés and 10% red wines. They owe their name to a legend: Henri de Richet, a winegrower from Marseillan who is said to have made his fortune in the wine trade, thanks to maritime trade. He was soon nicknamed "Henri de Richemer.
^"Hérault : Quels sont les 8 vins du département médaillés au Mondial des Vins Blancs de Strasbourg ?". herault-tribune.com (in French). 10 April 2024. Hérault dept.: What are the 8 wines from the department that have won medals at the Mondial des Vins Blancs in Strasbourg? The Richemer cellars, located in Marseillan in the Hérault, were particularly rewarded, with two gold medals for their IGP Pays d'Oc Richemer Viognier 2023 and the Souvenir Cap d'Agde IGP Côte de Thau 2023.
^This spirit of development stems from Government's Plan, with "Neighbouring urban complexes and sub-urban units", the urban theory of the leading corbusean architect André Wogenscky. Jean Balladur [fr] acted this plan in La Grande-Motte.
^"CAP D'AGDE MAIN PORT PRESENTATION". port-capdagde.com (in French). Ideal base for Mediterranean cruises to Spain (50 miles), the Balearics (200 miles) or Corsica (230 miles). 3100 moorings: * 10 sheltered basins around a 35 hectares body of water. * 6 sanitary blocks (toilets, showers, washbasins) with reserved access (electronic key). * Reserved parking for yachtsmen. * Fresh water and electricity (220 V mono and 380 V tri) at quayside. * Secure pontoons (electronic key access): berths are equipped with catways and, for larger units, with piles or deadbeds. * Special berths for multihulls. * 2 slipways (Avant Port). * European-standard waste disposal center. * Harbour dredged to 3 m.
^Félix, Laurent; Palouzié, Hélène; et al. (15 June 2023). LE CHÂTEAU LAURENS. Le Cherche-Midi. p. 200. Laurent Félix, head of the heritage department of the Hérault Méditerranée urban community. Hélène Palouzié, Regional Curator of Historic Monuments.
^"Seaside style: a breath of escape". rhinov.fr (in French). Introduced in the 1920s this Mediterranean look [...] creates the atmosphere of a vacation home where life is good. The seaside style first appeared in the United States between 1920 and 1930. The wealth and leisure obsession of the Roaring Twenties led to a boom in seaside resorts. The unique aestheticism, exoticism and relaxing aspect of the seaside style seduced Americans, leading it to become the style used for the development of these resorts and the dominant style of Californian and Floridian homes.
^"Sète history". thau-infos.fr (in French). Some long-term forecasts that seemed favorable to the port never came true. Some, like Professor Galtier, defined Sète as a "medium-sized" port, in continuous expansion from 1938 to 1954. While Gilles Salvat, a cultural attaché at the town hall, speaks of a structural crisis that began in the late 1930s, linked to the "poor development" of the Languedoc region. Like all French ports," points out G. Galtier, "Sète is an importing port: in 1964, incoming goods accounted for 78% of traffic. This is the same order of magnitude as Marseille and Le Havre.
^Sartre, Patrice. "La piraterie en mer" (in French). Études 2009/3 (Tome 410). pp. 295-304. "The fledgling United States fought its first war, from 1798 to 1801 in the West Indies, against the privateers of the young French Republic plundering American merchant ships. Building on the successes of this French Naval War (Engraved on the monument to the Marines in Arlington), the United States will pursue in the Mediterranean the Muslim "barbarians" who negotiated for ransom the merchant ships they had captured and their crews, one of the motivations for the capture of Algiers by France a few years later."
^"Agde camp". archives municipales Agde (in French). 28 September 2021. After the Battle of France, the town mourned its soldiers who had died at the front, while concern grew for those who were now prisoners in Germany. At the town hall, Marshal Pétain's regime made its mark, the mayor was maintained and the town council was modified, while living conditions for the people of Agatha became tougher. At the time of the roundup in August 1942, the Agde camp was the assembly point for Israelites from the Hérault region. During these painful days, Sabine Zlatin was present, and obtained the release of around a hundred Jewish children. When the german occupying forces left, all that remained on the site were the pozzolan paths, which were soon covered by housing developments, but the memory of the people who lived there would live on. An essential memorial to the town's 20th-century history, the Agde camp monument stands today at the intersection of route des 7 Fonts and rue Jean Moulin, near the René Cassin secondary school. Inaugurated in 1989, it symbolically marks the entrance to the camp and pays tribute to all the nationalities who lived there.
^"Les joutes, une tradition sur Agde depuis 1601 !". ville-agde.fr (in French). On the occasion of the arrival of the Duke of Montmorency, Henri I, Constable of France, a sumptuous tournament of jousts was organized in Agde. At that time, the jousts traditionally took place on the feast of Pentecost.