belle-île en Mer, has preserved natural environment
Belle-Ile's 85 square kilometres, extending north to south and east to west, make it the largest of France's Atlantic coast islands, and it is probably the most impressive too, thanks to the wide variety of scenery it offers. From the fine sandy dunes of the beach at giving to the sculpted cliffs at Taillefer point and tip of foals , Belle-Ile offers a remarkable spectacle and it is one that has been immortalised by numerous artists, painters and poets: here we have the Aiguilles de Port Coton (a group of sea stacks) rising up against the Atlantic and over there we see a colony of black-legged kittiwakes and herring gulls, defying the sea spray, then, further in the distance, stands the Fortification by Vauban (a famous French military engineer who died in 1707), offering a fine lesson in architecture. And alone, faced with the immensity of it all, the artist stands spellbound …