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The Ré Island, despite its small size, offers visitors an incredible amount of different moods and atmospheres. With this in mind, BARNES Île de Ré offers to guide you through ten towns and ten different atmospheres. Each village offers a lot of advantages and peculiarities.
On the south coast of the Île de Ré, you can spot the slim steeple of its church on your left as soon as you have crossed the bridge. Close to La Rochelle (15 minutes), a thalassotherapy, some fishing and sandy beaches, two village centers with shops on the Place d'Antioche and the Place des Tilleuls in La Noue, a peaceful and countyside atmosphere on the sea-side. You will then find for sale in this village some village houses with the shops nearby, some sea-side villas towards the beach of Montamer for example, but also a few ones with a view on the sea for sale around Les Essemberts / Grenettes to Sainte-Marie.
A village which fortifications by Admiral Vauban in the XIIth century are listed as a Unesco World Heritage, La Rochelle 20 minutes away, the port, the little beach of La Cible, the pedestrian village center and its indoor market and the shops of the 'capital city' of the Île de Ré. Hence you will find for sale in Saint-Martin some village houses, charming properties, properties with a sea via view in the district of La Cible or around the Vert Clos, or else some houses on the port.
The Bois-Plage is a seaside resort located in the very heart of the island, offering 6 km of beaches with dunes and a vast wooded territory inviting you to long walks. An active village square, some shops. Nearby, just 5 minutes away, Saint-Martin and La Couarde. At The Bois-Plage, you will find again some village house for sale, with a swimming pool or beautiful exteriors, charming houses and more recent villas near to the beach.
Once you have left Rivedoux, on your way north you find La Flotte, a village listed among the most beautiful of France, not far from La Rochelle (15 minutes), its port, the small beach of l'Arnerault, the pedestrian village center and its medieval market. Then La Flotte is a fishermens' place with little village houses for sale, bigger ones with a swimming pool, some properties close to the sea, but also a few houses with a sea view or a view over the port.
From the beach of Les Prises to the one of Les Folies, it is only one tongue of sand 5 km long where you are offered all seaside activities. La Couarde is a commercial center on the way to the old village, nearby the church, the shops and of a new market near the Mall, a central location in the Île de Ré. Saint-Martin is just 10 minutes away and the Bois-Plage only 5 minutes. You will find for sale in this village some village houses, villas with a swimming pool and nearby he beach and properties at the meeting point of the shopping area and the beach.
Loix is bordered by 14 km coasts. The Fier d'Ars and the salt marshes make the village a peace haven between sea and sky. An authentic village square facing the church, some shops and a market, a small beach, beautiful wild coasts and the marshes for the superb walks. It is an island in the island. You do not go through Loix, you come to Loix and there are to be found for sale some houses in the heart of the village, some villas with or without a swimming pool and a few rare houses with a sea view.
The famous Phare des Baleines, a church square with a market, a little village center with the shops, some beautiful long beaches, Ars just 5 minutes away and Les Portes 10 minutes. In Saint-Clément-des-Baleines, you will be made an offer of village houses for sale, with the shops nearby, but also some houses for sale in Le Gillieux, a district of Saint-Clément located on the road to the Phare.
The lively Place de la Liberté on market day and its shops on the old village side, some long, fine beaches not far from the village center and many other sandy beaches near Trousse-Chemise and the Pointe du Fier, the only golf course of the Île de Ré, a funny and finely-designed 9 holes on the waterfront. At the Portes you will then find a larger choice of properties : village houses, villas nearby the beaches and the center with swimming pool, villas nearby between the golf and the beaches or houses with a direct access to the beach, but also some houses with sea view.
The village of Ars extends on both sides of the East and West Coasts of the Île de Ré. Three main poles may be distinguished in Ars : the old harbour and the market, the church square with its famous steeple and its shops, the beach and the coast on the Grignon side. You will then find in Ars an offer of village houses for sale located between the shops and the sea, of villas with swimming pool (or possibility of one) close to the beach and of beautiful properties with a sea view.
Located on the East coast as you enter the Île de Ré, Rivedous is bathed by the waters of the straits Breton and d'Antioche, sheltering its small harbour, its bay, its beaches. Close to La Rochelle (10 minutes), with a recently renovated village center, its sea-front promenade and its shops. You will then find here for sale some villas with swimming pool, but also village houses, and even houses with a view on the sea and direct access onto the beach at the south end.
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