The ghost Normandy seaside town of Pirou-Plage, built in the 90s and where no one ever lived.
A lively affordable seaside holiday village with seventy-five houses and one hotel, this is what the Pirou-Plage was supposed to be when planned in th 90s. Twenty-five years later, the village looks like an abandoned film set: ruins of houses all covered with graffiti and posters in the middle of a lovely field surrounded with dunes. What happened? The houses were never finished and left to rot after a property developer manage to convince potential buyers to invest in a scheme which was a scam. The developer disappeared with the money, leaving unachieved cheaply built houses and a taste of anger and bitterness in Pirou. During the last twenty years, Pirou-Plage became the theatre of rave parties, squatters took over a few houses and more recently, the place became the playground for artists. Famous film maker Agnès Varda and photographer JR even shot a film there in 2014.
Size: 5760px × 3840px
Location: Pirou-Plage, Pirou, Manche, Normandy, France
Photo credit: © Elisabeth Blanchet / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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