Follow the boulder-lined path from the end of the parking lot and you'll arrive at the beginning of what may be the largest nude beach anywhere. Espiguette is a beautiful beach with lots of sand and extensive dunes. If it is not the most popular nude beach in France, it is at least among the top few. Even on sunny weekdays in September, expect to see hundreds and hundreds of naked bodies here. There is often a snack and beverage vendor who roves the beach with a cart.

There are more families with children near the parking lot. The predominantly gay area of the beach is about a 30-40 minute walk south. On crowded days, you can walk nearly an hour before the crowd starts to thin out.

Nudity continues well past the end of the authorized zoned, which apparently is not even signed, and the distance from the parking lot eastward to the point where a canal outlet interrupts the beach is over 6 kilometers, with no convenient public points of access in between. Espiguette is at the western edge of the Camargue, a vast wetlands area.

more info (in French) from www.vivrenu.com

more info (in French) from www.plagenat.org

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GPS: 43.4756, 4.1587

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      Le Grau du Roi, Gard (30), Languedoc-Roussillon, France

official tolerance?  yes (A)

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