Archaeology handicrafts and science and technology sites to visit Landes

Starting from the Cité Verte, where the town's sports facilities are grouped, the "sentier des Meuniers" is a 6-kilometre loop. It has a Romanian script from the 12th century where 14 magnificent capitals are listed as historical monuments. Who can be visited by appointment all year round and during the summer from Monday to Saturday from 14h to 18h in July and August except on Sundays. This circuit can be extended by a 5 km loop around Lake Agès.

Rate: free of charge.

Duration: 1 hour.

Difficulty: easy.

In Messanges, when art, garden, gastronomy and culture blend, it gives a charming place, La Grange aux Pierre. For twelve years, this place surrounded by a airial of cork oaks is the workshop of sculptor Didier Bies whose vocation was born with Carrara marble in the Italian "studios" of Pietrasanta. Then, it was with the Zimbabwe Shona artists that he continued his training sculpture the serpentine, a mineral whose appearance was similar to snake scales, hence his name. He then continued his passion with the wood of the Marensin pine.

After his meeting with Fabienne Biehler in Bordeaux for years, Didier gave an extra Dimension to this place since last year a simple and authentic restaurant has come to light. Regional and sometimes organic products are of honour: De tender, lamb shoulder of the Pyrenees crystallized Pyrenees in rosemary, vegetable lasagna with fresh goat… The barn with stones is a place of conviviality, with the kitchen of Fabienne, but also sharing thanks to the know-how of the artist: internships, cultural programming around reading, music, projections…