Place:Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, Pas-de-Calais, France

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NameLe Touquet-Paris-Plage
Alt namesLe Touquetsource: Wikipedia
TypeCommune
Coordinates50.517°N 1.583°E
Located inPas-de-Calais, France
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Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (; ; , older ), commonly referred to as Le Touquet, is a commune near Étaples, in the Pas-de-Calais department, northern France. It has a population of 4,227 (2019), but welcomes up to 250,000 people during the summer.

Located on the Opal Coast, south of Boulogne-sur-Mer, on the shoreline of the English Channel, the seaside resort has been nicknamed the "Garden of the English Channel", the "Pearl of the Opal Coast", the "Sports Paradise" or the "Four Seasons Resort".

The city bears the scars of wounds inflicted during World War II by the construction of the Atlantic Wall, the planting of mines prior to the German withdrawal and intensive Allied bombings. Nevertheless, part of the architectural heritage of Le Touquet was left intact. A number of unique villas have been preserved that evoke the seaside architecture of the Roaring Twenties and the 1930s. Although nowadays dominated by buildings from the 1950s to the 1980s, Le Touquet also possesses an important architectural heritage of Anglo-Norman style as well as twenty-one buildings protected as historical monuments, which make it the most awarded French seaside resort.

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