Notre-Dame-de-la-fin-des-Terres

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Notre-Dame-de-la-fin-des-Terres Basilica (in gascon: basilica Nòsta Dama de la Fin de las Terras) is a Roman Catholic minor basilica located in Soulac-sur-Mer, in the department of Gironde and the archdiocese of Bordeaux. It owes its name to the proximity of the point of Grave, which forms the northernmost part of the Medoc peninsula. The reference to "the end of the land" (and not "the end of the land") refers to the fragmentation, for a very long period (until the end of the 16th century), of the territory of North-Medoc into small islands, under the combined action of the waters of the ocean and those of the Gironde estuary. Ranked a historic monument on 20 July 1891, it was listed as a World Heritage Site by Unesco as a path of Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle in France in 1998.