✈️ Travel Aug 27, 2026 · Mark C O’Flaherty

Architourism in France: the retro futurist seaside town near Montpellier that’s out of this world

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Architourism in France: the retro futurist seaside town near Montpellier that’s out of this world
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Built in the 60s and 70s to curb a holiday exodus to Spain, with apartments inspired by Mayan pyramids and featuring ‘intergalactic curves’, La Grande-Motte is having another moment in the sun with fans of modern architectureMy dream holiday is a trip back in time. Not to see the results of seismic Pompeii or 15th-century Machu Picchu – although I love both – but somewhere created specifically between the mid 1950s and 1970s, when cities were getting weird. I love postwar architourism, exploring

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