Grand Site Occitanie - La Grande Motte
Bold, avant-garde architecture and town planning make La Grande Motte a real-life utopia, which has now earned it recognition and the awarding of a unique label in France.
La Grande Motte, icon of architecture and audacity
Classified as a 20th century heritage site, it is the only French city to benefit from this distinction for all of its districts and buildings.
Jean Balladur, its architect, who admired the work of Le Corbusier and Niemeyer, imagined it remembering the pre-Columbian temples of Teotihuacan and the Aztec deity of Quetzalcóatl, the Feathered Serpent.
The Pyramids are reminiscent of the Cévennes chain that looms on the horizon, the Great Pyramid, pivot of the city, is an inverted evocation of the Pic Saint Loup. Point Zéro, the first building that housed the city's public services, draws the shape of a fish.
What to see, what to do in La Grande Motte?
A journey into the imagination
Discover a unique, futuristic city on the shores of the Mediterranean. La Grande Motte is the work of a visionary architect: Jean Balladur. In the early 1960s, he was commissioned to create a new seaside resort on a deserted site where there were only marshes. He will build an exceptional decor, with these pyramid residences with shapes inspired by the pre-Columbian temples of Mexico but also by the marine world.
Gradually enter into this creation... Stroll on foot, or go cycling on the 25 km of dedicated routes, linked to the great Mediterranean cycling route.
Sunbathing on the beach
7 km of fine sandy beaches! The Grand Travers beach, very popular with Montpellier residents, is richly endowed with straw huts. Couchant beach will satisfy your cravings for windsurfing, stand-up paddleboarding, canoeing, kitesurfing, diving... anything is possible when it comes to water sports.
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