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Extract from the Gurande Travel Guides:
On the edge of the marshes of the Grande-Brire, just before you come to the sea, is the tiny, gorgeous walled town of
GURANDE
. Gurande gave its name to this peninsula, and derived its fortune from controlling the salt pans that form a chequerboard across the surrounding inlets. This "white country" is composed of bizarre-looking
oeillets
, each 70 to 80 square metres in extent, in which sea water, since Roman times, has been collected and evaporated.
Gurande today is still entirely enclosed by its stout fifteenth-century ramparts. Although you can't walk along them, a spacious promenade...
read the whole Gurande Travel Guides...
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