Le Touquet-Paris-Plage

Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (pronounced: [lə tu.kɛː pa.ʁi plaʒ]), commonly referred to as Le Touquet, is a commune near Boulogne-sur-Mer, in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. It has a population of 5,355 but welcomes up to 250,000 people during the summer.

Witney has been twinned with Le Touquet since 1980 and will be celebrating 40 years of twinning with a series of events taking place between the 3rd - 5th April 2020.

Le Touquet has a reputation as the most elegant holiday resort of northern France, the playground of rich Parisians, with many luxury hotels.

Since the mid-1990s, Le Touquet’s villas have become extremely fashionable amongst architecture lovers throughout Europe, rediscovering the “folie” of seaside architecture of both the Roaring Twenties and the 1930s. The most famous local architect is Louis Quetelart, whose style was named after him: Louis Quetelart Style.

Le Touquet participates in international town twinning; its current partners are:

Germany Winterberg, Germany (since September 1966), winter sports town

Belgium Rixensart, Belgium, south of Brussels

United Kingdom Witney, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Tunisia Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, upscale seaside town in the suburbs of Tunis

United States Cary, North Carolina, United States

France Eckbolsheim, France, 5 km (3.1 mi) from Strasbourg