Tourist Attractions & Monuments Gironde

Hourtin plage is a place of leisure to discover during your holidays during a stay on the coast of the Atlantic Médoc. Surfing, swimming, leisure activities for children, supervised beach. Dogs must be kept on a leash.

Passing through the "city at the seven ports," miss the superb trail Coastline would look of the sacrilege. This 7 km long course, offered by the tourism Office, footpath crosses a shore completely open onto the Pool. Port of Smells in the port of the Mole, let yourself be surprised by the landscape and its outline according to rate and the flow of the tides... This visit is dotted with fun activities to discover the fauna and flora of salted meadows, admire the diversity of landscapes and more on the maritime heritage of the area. An attractive programme in perspective and for which the minimum age is 5 years.

Next to the Basilica, the former hostelry Géraud de Graves has been fitted out in 2010-2012 in the former monks' convent. If its foundations date back to the 12th century, important works were carried out in the 17th century under François de Sourdis, then in the 19th century with Cardinal Donnet, who revived the pilgrimage. The interior is richly decorated. The baroque altarpiece in which the statue of Our Lady is incorporated, undertaken in the 14th century, took its present appearance in 1666. The nave and the choir are enriched with naive paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as numerous ex-votos (boats, hearts, military decorations...). The basilica is the scene of regular pilgrimages which take place on the^first Sunday from March to November. Those of August 15 and September 8 are the most important. Note that the Sanctuary has a park of 3 hectares. Located on the hillsides overlooking the city of Langon, close to the medieval cities, the Notre-Dame hostel is a place of accommodation with 15 rooms, including 4 that can accommodate people with reduced mobility. Without forgetting the 4 dormitories of 3, 4 and 5 beds. And always with a view on the park! A truly atypical establishment, the Notre-Dame hostelry has been welcoming pilgrims and retreatants of the Notre-Dame de Verdelais sanctuary for over 900 years, but also all types of visitors who wish to experience a peaceful stay. Possibility of catering for groups on reservation. The Museum of Religious Art was inaugurated at the end of the 1990s.

The shoreline of the basin has been built for discovery. The heart of the Arcachon basin is a very interesting natural area with its landscapes, flora and fauna. The aménagées are the refuge of herons, crested, cormorants, swans, various species of ducks, otters and ragondins. Ostréicoles ports of La Testing and Gujan-Mestras, the swamp of the delta of the Leyre delta and the house of Nature, occupy the southern shore with the old salt marshes transformed in the th century into fish tanks. To the north, we meet the Domaine de bien, then Andernos and Ares, the natural reserve of the salted meadows leading to the peninsula of the Cap-Ferret, the village of L'Herb, to finish at the foot of its lighthouse.

The Bordeaux metropolis is urban... In this territory of 57,000 hectares, the balance between city and nature is perfect. Here, everything is done to preserve it: short circuits from producer to consumer, preservation of ecosystems and biodiversity... But the most astonishing thing is the variety of landscapes. To convince yourself of this, you just have to walk some of the 160 km of marked routes, stroll through some of the 130 parks and gardens of the agglomeration or spend the night in a peri-urban refuge: free and unusual!