Nouvelle-Aquitaine
The Dune of Pilat is 2900 meters long and 616 meters wide and the highest point is 106 meters high. It invades the forest of the Landes of Gascony from one to five meters per year.
The site of Oradour-sur-Glane with its center of memory and the martyred village tell the tragedy of Saturday June 10, 1944, the massacre of 642 inhabitants of the village present at the arrival of the SS Das Reich Division