The district of Port Maria
The peninsula of Quiberon has two ports; Port Maria, the most active port of Quiberon and Port Haliguen, the oldest port of Quiberon, which was until the middle of the nineteenth century the main port of the peninsula. Today Port Haliguen is a port with multiple activities of which the main one is the marina.
Port Maria is a port dedicated mainly to fishing, trade and passenger transport. It hosts more than 150 year-round fishing boats that unload their fish and crustaceans in Cree. It is also the starting point for boat connections to Belle Ile en Mer, Houat and Hoëdic.
Port Maria is famous for sardine fishing since the end of the 19th century, in fact, in the middle of the 20th century, Port Maria becomes the first sardine port in France. And yet the ports usually attract by their activity, the diversity of the manœuvres, the landings ...
Here, in Quiberon, the port of connection with Belle-Ile, Houat and Hoëdic has supplanted the fishing port in the curiosity of the walkers and the facilities of walk of the preceding municipal team did a lot to increase the traffic of barges.
An obvious sign is the "sinister" decline of Port Maria Street, the Lighthouse District and Cannery Street. The urbanism of the sixties and seventies permanently ruined the landscape.
Nowadays the blending of warehouses, poorly fagotated villas, vacant lots turns the Rue du Port de Pêche into a "gloomy" road, which is not that attractive.
Essentially, apart from the castle Turpault and the first rocks of the Wild Coast, it is still lacking of an element of attraction, in this neighborhood, and especially a policy of urbanism embellishment!
The inhabitants of the district of Port-Maria are involved in this project, and they may, on Thursday, February 9 at 14:30, share their observations, remarks, visions of the neighborhood during the diagnosis "walking", organized by the Cabinet Univers same day.
A reflection will also be carried out on the urban organization of this sector in a global and transversal way, in order to grasp the complexity of the site (numerous institutional actors, important port infrastructures like the ferry terminal and the fish auction, important place dedicated to the car in terms of flow and occupation of the public space, heritage potential to be revealed, etc.).
As the outcome of this reflection, an overall strategy for the development of public spaces will be suggested. It will enable those who are elected to set their priorities and define an investment program in the medium and long term.