Ile d'Yeu is situated 17km off the Vendée coastline. The ferry port is located less than 10km away in Formentine.
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The island, which covers 23m², offers a wide range of landscapes, long beaches and dunes backed by pine forests, wild coasts with cliffs encircling white sandy coves and moors ablaze with armerias. You can discover the sunken paths across the valleys and alongside the cliffs, hedged farmland, home to willow trees and black thorns and houses with low, tiled roofs and colourful shutters.
Fishing remains an important activity on the island, which was once the largest tuna fishing port on the Atlantic coast. You can watch the fishing boats arrive with their catch - seabass, monkfish, sole, turbot, sea bream, hake and other fish and shellfish.