LA BAULE AND ITS PINES
La Baule is its beach, and the garden city sheltered by its pines. Aesthetics today, pines first had a defensive function in a hostile environment. At a time when La Baule did not yet exist, the sand had buried the first village of Escoublac. In 1810, Napoleon ordered the planting of pines to retain the dune on the Atlantic coast. The work to be done was considerable: using coniferous trees to fix 700 hectares of dunes constituting the coastal spire linking the former Croisic islands of Batz and Le Pouliguen to the Guerande plateau. It was created, for the western part by the Société Benoît, which gave this name to this district of La Baule; for the rest by the Société des Dunes, led by a businessman from Nantes, Mr. Berthault. From the situation of these plantations and the creation of the railway station, the seaside resort of La Baule was born. At the end of the 19th century, trees became a real element of the landscape and the emblem of the city's identity, located on 650 ha of pine forest. The Office national des forêts has been in charge of managing its 47-hectare forest since 1999, until 2013, by the town hall of La Baule. Every year, 5,000 m² of over-aged pines were repopulated.
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