Saint Gilles Croix de Vie
The seaside resort of St Gilles Croix de Vie
The VILLA LANDREAU campsite is located 1.2 km from ST GILLES CROIX DE VIE
This seaside resort offers you the sea, its beaches as well as its pedestrian streets, its fishing and sailing harbour, its shops, supermarkets, casino…
On the markets, come and discover our many regional products:
- Wednesday and Saturday mornings: Croix de Vie – Place Guy Kergoustin
- Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday mornings: St Gilles – Place du Marché aux Herbes
St Gilles has :
- Bicycle paths and hiking trails
- beaches and forests
- Fishing and pleasure port in the heart of the city
- Fishing outside the campground on the river “La Vie” bordered by marshes (500 m)
- Mini-golf, bowling, tennis, go-karting
- Canoeing, horse riding
- Casino, discotheques, cinema complex
- Summer activities, cultural attractions of the country
- Supermarkets and local markets, gastronomy
- Train station, bike rental
There is an important fishing fleet and emblematic sardine canneries. Immortalized in several movies, the city offers you instructive and pleasant walks in its marina but also in its fishing port, the first sardine port on the Atlantic coast and the fish market, on the Boisvinet beach and the large beach of St Gilles but also in the district of Morocco and its typical houses such as the fisherman’s house dating from 1920 and remained in its juice of the time.
The local markets will allow you to treat yourself by buying freshly caught seafood but also our famous Vendée ham, the Préfou, the Noirmoutier salt, the Vendée brioche, the Vendée fion, the troussepinette and the wines of the Vendée fiefs.