THE OLYMPIC SEAWATER POOL
The Deauville swimming pool has it all: seawater pumped from the sea off Deauville and heated to 27°C all year round, a 50-meter Olympic-size pool and a singular architecture designed by Roger Taillibert, architect of leading sports facilities around the world. From the outside, it looks like a shell. Inside, it is a huge vault that captures the light.
SPORT AND OLYMPIC : CHOOSE YOUR COURSE
The lifeguards animate the place all year long. They give individual swimming lessons in the Olympic pool or the learning pool. You can also rent water lines for group training.
Individual lessons by appointment at the pool reception desk
Aquagym: every day from Monday to Friday from 12:15 to 1:00 pm during school time and from 12:00 to 12:45 pm on weekends, vacations and during vacation periods.
Practical information
Opening days and hours, rates, classes, reservations hereAN ARCHITECTURAL FEAT
Planned as early as 1924 in the Bains de Mer establishment by Charles Adda, the Olympic swimming pool will finally be built in 1966 at the initiative of Lucien Barrière who succeeded his uncle François André at the head of the Casino, the Golf, the Royal Hotel and the Normandy. This was one of the first projects in France by the architect Roger Taillibert. This program is for him the first of a series of sports facilities, including the stadium of the Parc des Princes in Paris (1967 -1972) and the Olympic complex in Montreal (1972 -1976). It is also the subject of his diploma at the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He opted for a daring design far from the "Norman" style then in vogue on the Côte Fleurie and implemented a process of thin long-span sails, which he had experimented with in the early 1960s and of which he became a specialist. The seawater pool was inaugurated in July 1966. Threatened with closure in 1977 because of its operating costs, it has been managed by the municipality since 1980.
