BIGANOS
In full heart of the delta of Leyre, Biganos is a place of old settlement. From immemorial time, the site was a crossroads impossible to circumvent between the North and the South of the Basin. It was in particular crossed by the "way of the salt" which, which coming from the salt-water marshes of Audenge, joined the Roman way of Teste of Buch in Bordeaux. Today, located at the doors of the Regional Park of Landesof Gascogne, Biganos attracts all those who wish to refresh within an exceptional setting of greenery,and that is favourable to the dawdling and the relaxation as well as the discovery of a remarkable and sometimes exuberant fauna and flora.

AUDENGE
Between Basin and forest, at equal distance of the Point of the Cape Tag and town of Arcachon, Audenge enjoys a privileged geographical situation. The site was occupied since the iron age and, in the XIIth century, there existed on the territory of the commune two lordships: that of Audenge and that of Certes. The headquarter of the latter was located at the field which still bears this name, but there does not remain about it any more but one feudal mound. Property today of the Academy of the Littoral, this field, on which, majestic, throne a vast residence of the XIXe century, is a true paradise which shelters an exceptional fauna and a flora. Audenge has also a typical oyster port, which knew to preserve charm and authenticity.

LANTON
Easy to access, Lanton forms part of these privileged places which remained out of time. In full heart of the Basin, where the ground and the sea do not make any more but one, Lanton with its four boroughs (Lanton, Cassy, Toussat, Blagon) know how to take time to live. Some choose the sea bathing, escape for stroll by foot on the path of the littoral, in forest, or, choose a walk by bicycle along the cycle tracks. The most courageous leave to fishing of the shells. The others, finally, stroll in the oyster ports and taste in the passing some oysters of quality.

ANDERNOS LES BAINS
At hardly thirty minutes of Bordeaux, between marine breezes and timbered scents, Andernos the Baths is offered to you and reveals you all its beauties; here, the life is rhythmized by the cycle of the tides. It is the secret of this charm that has no similar which the paleolithic men appreciated in turn, who had fixed themselves on the site some eleven thousand years ago, then, much later, Greeks, Iberians, Celtic and Romans. In your turn, discover its immense beach bordered with pine forests, its natural reserves favourable to long stroll, its forests, its cordial and coloured environment. .

ARÈS
Quiet Beaches, salt meadow lambs, forests and clearings, kingdom of the birds and the animals of wood, Arès is a city in nature. Except in the centre town where they reach an urban density, everywhere the dwellings are disseminated among the pines. A few aside from the agglomeration, it is the oyster port with its charming huts of fishermen. To the crossroads of North Basin, the nearly island of the Cape Tag and the access to the vineyards of the Medoc, Arès offers many possibilities of easy stroll. It is an ideal site to explore the country and to discover it under all its facets.

LEGE-CAP FERRET
Between the peaceful Basin of Arcachon and the impetuous ocean, between the small handles bordered with pines and a beach of infinite fair sand, in the medium of an astonishing and quiet nature, in the perfumes of mimosa and broom, in the resin scents, the nearly island of Lege-cap Ferret shells along the coast picturesque ports and villages Claouey, Jacquets, Four, Petit Piquey, Grand Piquey, Piraillan, Canon, Herbe, Cap Ferret. Here, it is freedom, the light, the fresh and iodized air, nature. In a few minutes, one passes from the quietude of the Basin to the impetuous rollers of the ocean, and from small bays to spaces without borders, from the animation of a place of village to the calms of an immense marked out forest with paths of walks and cycle trac.