6 Sights in Agde, France (with Map and Images)

The Youth of Agde is a bronze statue discovered on September 13, 1964, on the bed of the river Herault on the south-eastern coast of France, by Denis Fanquerle and divers from the Agde Marine Archaeological Research Group. It is probably associated with an ancient Greek shipwreck.

Wikipedia: The Youth of Agde (EN)

Claude Terrisse, born in Agde in 1598 and died in the same city on November 27, 1673, was a sailor from Agathois, who was a privateer first in the service of Charles-Emmanuel of Savoy, then successively in the service of his son Victor Amadeus I, Louis XIII and finally Louis XIV.

Wikipedia: Claude Terrisse (FR)

Château Laurens, also called Villa Laurens, was a building built in Agde from 1898 by collector Emmanuel Laurens (1873-1959). It is an eclectic building in which Art Nouveau and neo-Greek sequences intersect as well as large sets proceeding from Egyptomania or Orientalism.

Wikipedia: Château Laurens (FR)

The church of Notre-Dame-du-Grau, formerly Notre-Dame-d'Aiguesvives, is a church located near the banks of the Hérault two kilometers south of Agde, at a place called Le Grau-d'Agde, in the French department of Hérault and the Occitanie region.

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The Agde camp is a French internment camp created in 1939 on the territory of the commune of Agde (Hérault) to receive, from February, Spanish Republicans refugees in France, at the end of the Spanish Civil War.

Wikipedia: Camp d'Agde (FR)

The Battle of Camarón which occurred over ten hours on 30 April 1863 between the Foreign Legion of the French Army and the Mexican army, is regarded as a defining moment in the Foreign Legion's history.

Wikipedia: Battle of Camarón (EN)