Les Landes
Les Landes: Amid endless beaches and mysterious forests, explore the wild beauty of this region with captivating contrasts.
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Book your holiday home in Les Landes through Gites. Authentic holiday homes. Check out what’s on offer in department Landes in the Aquitaine region with 106 kilometres of sand beaches, dunes and lakes.
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Enjoy swimming, surfing or just relax during your holiday in Landes on the Atlantic coast. For instance in Biscarrosse, Mimizan-Plage at Mimizan, Capbreton and Soorts-Hossegor, simply known as Hossegor.
Activities from your holiday home
From your gite in Landes there are plenty of possibilities for walking, cycling and horse-riding. Napoleon III had a large area cultivated, Fôret des Landes with 600,000 hectares of pine forest was developed. More information about this can be found in Ecomusée de Marquèze in Sabres.
Tranquility and nature in Landes
The river Leyre runs through a nature reserve and you can find lovely villages here such a Luxey. Recommendable trips during your holiday are l’Étang Noir in Seignosse, Marais d’Orx where as much as 250 migratory birds visit and the mudflat area of Barthes l’Ardour where protected animals live such as turtles. Do you like cycling from your holiday-home? A pleasant cycling route runs from Moliets-et-Maâ via Messanges to the lively seaside resort Vieux-Boucau-les-Bains, the former Port d’Albret .
By canoe you can go to Saint-Julien-en-Born and explore the marshes of the river Contis, that are part of NATURA 2000. What about travelling by ‘batelier’ (gondola) via the river Courant d’Huchet to the Atlantic coast? Lac de Sanguinet is a perfect spot for trout fishing.
Towns in Landes
Important towns in Landes are department capital Mont-de-Marsan, with festivities in July and where sculpture takes an important place, and Dax. Here you can admire Cathédrale Notre Dame and the bullfighting arena dating from 1913. This is also a spa town, like Eugénie-les-Bains.
Gastronomy
For specialities such as ‘gras’ from duck, chicken, dorade, asparagus, venison, eau-de-vie you can go the the market in Aire-sur-l’Adour or Peyrehorade, on the Gave de Pau River. Montfort-en-Chalosse used to be a stopover for pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela. Other beautiful bastides are Saint-Justin and Labastide d’Armagnac, where you can see a collection of racing bicycles and jerseys from the Tour de France on display in a chapel. Near Basque country is Tarnos which has an annual jazz festival.