With two steps of the Eleovic camp-site in the Atlantic Loire, the Saint-Gildas Point is a rock point located at the extreme west of the Country of Retz, on the commune of Préfailles. It is about one of the most visited tourist sites of the Loire Atlantique.
During the second world war the occupant in order to protect the underwater base from Saint Nazaire strengthens the Point Gildas Saint and installs many batteries of shooting. Last pocket of the occupation of the German troops after the combined unloading, Préfailles will be released only on May 11, 1945, that is to say nearly 9 months after the end of the war.
The Saint-Gildas point recently was the subject of an important program of rehabilitation, in order to reduce the progressive destruction of the biotope. Many marked out alleys were traced and the moor was Re-ensemée and stabilized. Until 1750, it carried also the names of “advanced Chevesché” or “point of Chevêché”.
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One finds there a port sheltering pleasure and fishing vessels, a club of veil, a space museographic sheltered in the old semaphore transformed into headlight in the middle of the XXe century (automated today), a hotel as well as restaurants and shops. The port of a capacity of more than 200 dampings out of buoys proposes many services (crane for the démâtage, hiring of boats…)
Top of the semaphore a unspoilable view is offered to you bay of Baule in north, the estuary of the Loire, the shores of Bay of Bourgneuf and the islands of the Pillar and of Noirmoutier in the South.
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