At the sunset end of the island: le phare des Baleines, the wild conche and hamlets of great charm between ocean and marshes.
At the western tip of the island, Saint-Clément-des-Baleines strings out its hamlets (le Gillieux, la Tricherie, le Griveau) between the heathland, the marshes and the immense conche of sand. Here the island turns wild again.
The houses here are places of refuge: low long farmhouses with shutters bleached by the sea spray, hamlet houses waiting to be restored, a few discreet villas on the edge of the dunes. The village offers the gentlest prices on the island, and some of its greatest landscapes.
The village owes its name to the whales that the sea once left on the foreshore of the headland. An outpost on the Atlantic, it was marked as early as 1682 by la vieille tour des Baleines, the old Baleines tower, raised on Vauban's orders to signal a coast that navigators feared.
In 1854 the great lighthouse took over: 57 metres high, among the tallest in France, it sweeps the horizon with its beam every night. Its staircase of 257 steps and its panorama make it one of the most visited monuments on the Atlantic coast.
Between the two lights, the village gave itself its church in 1842-1843, on the eve of becoming a parish: Saint-Clément, named after the patron saint of sailors.
57 metres, 257 steps and a complete panorama over the island and the ocean: the great monument of the western end of Ré, with its museum at the foot of the tower and, out to sea, the silhouette of le phare des Baleineaux.
The first light on the headland, raised under Vauban in 1682, one of the oldest surviving witnesses to French maritime signalling.
The immense wild beach backed by the state forest, one of the most spectacular shorelines on the Atlantic coast.
Le Gillieux, la Tricherie, le Griveau: clusters of low houses whose charm is entirely intact, between heathland and marshes.
The long-established family park on the headland, between gardens, birds and curiosities: a childhood memory for generations.
From the conche to the Fier, an unspoilt shoreline to be walked or cycled, in the light of the far end of the island.
People come to Saint-Clément for space: the conche at low tide, the forest, the paths between the marshes. Life here is simple and lived outdoors, punctuated by the market and the hamlet fêtes.
The village lives all year round, like its neighbours, and it too sees its permanent population growing, won over by prices that are still affordable and by nature on an extraordinary scale.
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