Located on the Opal Coast, south of Boulogne-sur-Mer, on the shoreline of the English Channel, the seaside resort has been nicknamed the "Garden of the English Channel" (), the "Pearl of the Opal Coast" (), the "Sports Paradise" () or the "Four Seasons Resort" (). Although nowadays dominated by buildings from the 1950s to the 1980s, a number of unique villas have still been preserved that evoke the seaside architecture of the Roaring Twenties and the 1930s. Le Touquet possesses an important architectural heritage of Anglo-Norman style and twenty-one buildings protected as historical monuments which make it the most awarded French bathing resort.