Heritage walk in Biscarrosse

Name: Heritage walk in Biscarrosse
Start: 2021-09-19T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-09-19T12:00:00+02:00
Location: Biscarrosse - Anciens logements du Centre d’essais des Landes

Heritage walk with Laëtitia Maison-Soulard, researcher at the Heritage and Inventory Service of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, around the old dwellings of the Centre d'Essais des Landes (CEL).

Sunday 19 September 2021, 10:00Passed

Conditions

Free. Reservation required. Appointment: at 10 am in front of the Saint-Exupéry room.

Registration

relations.publiques@ville-biscarrosse.fr

©Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel - Adrienne Barroche, 2019

Heritage walk with Laëtitia Maison-Soulard, researcher at the Heritage and Inventory Service of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, around the old dwellings of the Centre d'Essais des Landes (CEL).

Laëtitia Maison-Soulard, Heritage Curator in the Heritage and Inventory Department of the Nouvelle Aquitaine Region, is the author of the book The Aerospace Industry in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, a Century of History and Heritage.
This heritage walk will also be an opportunity for each participant to share their stories about this area and thus contribute to enriching and extending its history.

About the location

Biscarrosse - Anciens logements du Centre d’essais des Landes

259 avenue Saint-Exupéry, 40600 Biscarrosse

Landes
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

In 1962, as part of the development of the French deterrent force, the Government set up the «Centre d'Essais des Landes» (CEL, now DGA EM), between Biscarrosse and Mimizan, facing the ocean, in order to transfer the missile testing centers located up tothere in Algeria. As a result, an influx of workers charged with studying these new weapons converged on Biscarrosse and the military authorities, in collaboration with the Ministry of Construction, decided on 7 February 1964 to create a Priority Urbanization Area (ZUP) in Biscarrosse.
The chief architects of the ZUP of Biscarrosse are Georges Johannet and Jean Marty. They coordinate the work of several other architects such as Aquitaine Architectes Associés by André Gresy and Jean-Raphaël Hébrard. In total, the village of Biscarrosse gained 1,230 dwellings, 860 of which were for the CEL and the population doubled in a few years, increasing to 7,159 in 1968\. These new dwellings are built in the image of the large sets of bars and tower