Here is the city where everyone is naked

Nudist baths can be found almost everywhere, both in Sweden and abroad.

But a whole city for nudity?

It exists. In Cap D'Agde on the French Riviera, nudism has been taken to a whole new level.

At the bank office, in the grocery store and in the restaurants - everywhere you see naked bodies of all shapes, sizes and ages. In Cap D'Agde, no one is surprised to see a naked bottom at the freezer counter. This is a mecca for anyone who doesn't like clothes.

What was once a small privately owned naturist campsite has developed into an entire small town where up to 40,000 nudist enthusiasts crowd during high season. It all started after the Second World War when the land behind the chalk-white beach was owned by the Oltra family. The family discovered that more and more people were attracted to the two kilometer long, unexploited strip of beach and that many were sunbathing naked. The family decided to take advantage of the situation and built a small nudist campsite on their land, called the Oltra Club.

Attracted from Holland and Germany

The campsite mainly attracted young families from Germany and Holland and thrived in obscurity until the early 1970s, when the French state drew up a plan to adapt the entire Languedoc-Roussilion coastline to tourism.

The Oltra family saw their chance to expand and managed to convince the authorities to let Cap D'Adge become an official naturist beach. Suddenly there was a potential for substantial growth and a whole city began to emerge.

Most spectacular is Heliopolis, a four-story semicircular building with 800 apartments and its own shopping mall, swimming pools and tennis courts.

Problems with swingers

But all is not peace and joy in the nude paradise. Since the mid-90s, more and more swingers have been attracted to Cap D'Adge, which has created conflicts between the traditional naturists and the more hedonistically inclined. This has led to the fact that public sex acts are now subject to heavy fines and that you are not allowed to have sexually charged equipment on the beach. The truth is, however, that the swinger tourists are very important to the resort's economy, not the least of which is noticeable in the fact that the clothing stores found at the resort are mainly focused on various forms of fetish clothing. There are also a number of clubs for different sexual orientations at the resort which are allowed in the hope that the whole resort will not fall into lascivious life.

But to keep some of the family feeling at least in June and August, French police patrol the beaches to keep order among the dunes. And there are still many naturist families who go there.