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Fort Louvois

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Fort Louvois

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Fort Louvois

Name: Fort Louvois
Rating: 2

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Location: Bourcefranc-Le-Chapus, Rochefort, New Aquitaine, France

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1. Les Cabanes de la Baudissière – Forêt Domaniale des Saumonards loop from Bourcefranc-le-Chapus

82.7km

04:52

150m

Intermediate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Fort Louvois – Port de Marennes loop from Marennes

19.5km

01:12

40m

Easy bike ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Pont de la Seudre – Oléron Island Bridge loop from La Palmyre

79.9km

04:35

230m

Intermediate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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🕊️ 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒓

June 10, 2018

The walkway appears at low tide, otherwise a free ferry goes to the fort. Fort entrance €7

Stéphane Leblanc

December 29, 2021

Inaugurated in 1966, the Ile d'Oléron bridge connects the largest French island on the Atlantic coast to the mainland, the second island on the mainland coast after Corsica.
From the 1960s, with the boom in seaside vacations, ferries were no longer sufficient to transport vacationers' cars. The General Council of Charente-Maritime then decided to build a bridge.

The work was, at the time, a remarkable technical feat with its 3,027 meters in length, its 46 spans on the Coureau d'Oléron, a thin strait that separates the island from the Pointe du Chapus, from the mainland to the Isle.
It was completed on March 19, 1966, after ten months of work. Its design, a girder bridge, now widespread, was at the time of its revolutionary design.

Crossing the bridge offers beautiful views of the coasts, very different depending on the time of the tide, views of the open sea or of oyster beds.

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Christian 48000

October 8, 2024

Fort Louvois accessible by foot at low tide on a very slippery paved path

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Location: Bourcefranc-Le-Chapus, Rochefort, New Aquitaine, France

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Fort Louvois

1. Les Cabanes de la Baudissière – Forêt Domaniale des Saumonards loop from Bourcefranc-le-Chapus

2. Fort Louvois – Port de Marennes loop from Marennes

3. Pont de la Seudre – Oléron Island Bridge loop from La Palmyre

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