Leucate port

Port Leucate is a Seaside resort of the Commune Frenchwoman of Leucate (Aude). This old island, become peninsula today, is bathed by the Mediterranean. The commune of Leucate counts more than 2450 inhabitants in the year and atteind more than 15000 inhabitants during the summer. The commune of Leucate account 18 km of beaches.

Port Leucate is the result of a tourist operation of installation of the littoral of Roussillon which began in the middle of the Sixties, with an aim of retaining the Scandinavian tourists who went to Spain.

The city profits from a sumptuous framework and an installation of all beauty (green lawn, fountains enlightened, beach with fine sand, palm trees…) who is the result of projects aiming at embourgeoiser the city. So since the beginning of the years 2000, the city attracts mainly easy families. The prices of the houses and apartments more than doubled in less than 10 years.

Tourism is the essential activity of Leucate Port. All the modes of lodging are there possible hotels, vacation villages, furnished hirings or camp-sites. The quays of the port are very animated the evening and the most various gastronomies are proposed to the amateurs there. Port Leucate is also the starting point of superb circuits making it possible to discover a very rich back-country: castles cathares, Romanesque art of Roussillon, prehistoric site of Tautavel, small yellow train of Cerdagne, abbey of Fontfroide, throats of Galamus, Castle of Salses, without forgetting the City of Carcassonne and Corbières.

The port of pleasure can accommodate 1100 boats, and the dry ports 350 boats more infos

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