The secret peninsula of the Fier: salt marshes, craft workshops and a white village drawn tight around its square.
Set on its peninsula in the middle of the Fier, Loix is not a village you pass through: you go there. A single road across the marshes leads to it, and that geography has preserved a white village, close-knit and quiet, drawn tight around its square and its church.
The property market in Loix is the most discreet on the island: a handful of sales a year, village houses with enclosed courtyards, a few properties facing the marshes. Here more than anywhere, everything is settled before a property ever reaches the market.
Salt made Loix: the peninsula, ringed by marshes, lived for centuries to the rhythm of the salt workers and of its tide mill, a rare survivor of the hydraulic engineering that used the flow of the Fier to grind grain.
Left aside from the main flows of traffic, Loix has reinvented itself as a village of craftspeople: art studios, a soap works and a celebrated printing and bookbinding house carry on a spirit of craftsmanship and independence that fits its character as an island within the island perfectly.
The great landscape of Loix, worked by the salt makers: mirror-like salt pans, heaps of salt and the light of the Fier.
The essential visit for understanding the white gold of Ré, from the salt pan to the fleur de sel.
A rare remnant of the mills driven by the tide, a witness to the hydraulic ingenuity of the people of Loix in former times.
A parish from the fourteenth century, rebuilt and reoriented in 1827, it watches over the village square and holds a votive frigate, one of the oldest sailors' models on the island.
A soap works, a fine-art printer, independent designers: a concentration of workshops unique on the island.
Footpaths and cycle tracks between the marshes and the shore, a kingdom of birds and of sunsets, with the outline of the fort du Grouin, rebuilt in 1861, standing sentinel on its headland.
In Loix, life fits on to a single square: the market, the café, the school. The rest happens outdoors, by bicycle through the marshes, on foot along the Fier. A chosen simplicity that has become the most sought-after of luxuries.
The village lives all year round, faithful to its spirit of the workshop and of independence and, as everywhere on the island, that permanent life is gaining ground, carried by craftspeople and families who have settled here for good.
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