Landes | |
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Country | France |
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Region | New Aquitaine |
Prefecture | Mont-de-Marsan |
Area | 9 243 km² |
Population | 410 355 hab. () |
Density | 44,4 inhab./km² |
Spindle | UTC 01:00, UTC 02:00 |
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The Landes is a department of South West of France In the region New Aquitaine.
Understand
The name of the department comes from The land, a vast expanse of swamps; where the shepherds grazed their sheep. The image of Épinal is the shepherd perched on his stilts (in Occitan "les tchanques": to pronounce the tianques).
The "artificial" Landes forest came into being at the end of the XIXe century when Napoleon III crossing the moor, commissioned Brémontier to plant maritime pine and clean up the land. Today, the economic life of the Landes is essentially based on the exploitation of this resource. Papeteries de Gascogne is the epitome of economic success. Who does not know the pine paneling of the Landes? But also: charcoal, turpentine, agglomerates ...
In the western part, on its Atlantic coast are wild beaches and dunes. It is enough to see the many tourists in the summer, to understand that the second economic resource of the department is tourism.
Cities
- 1 Aire-sur-l'Adour
- 2 Aureilhan
- 3 Biscarrosse
- 4 Belis
- 5 Dax
- 6 Losse
- 7 Leon
- 8 Mont-de-Marsan
- 9 Waves
- 10 Sabers – By coming to visit the eco-museum of Marquèze, you will find reconstituted the life of the Landes at XIXe century.
- 11 Saint-Paul-lès-Dax
- 12 Saint-Sever
- 13 Sanguinet – Archaeological museum
- 14 Soorts-Hossegor
- 15 Mimizan
Other destinations
- 1 Landes of Gascony
- 2 Dune of Pilat (Dune of Pyla) – Free access. Paid parking after the first 30 minutes.
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Eat
Aquitaine gastronomy – Foie gras (goose or duck) was born in this department. The Landes is the land of good food: Aperitif with floc de Gascogne (sweet wine with Armagnac), Landes salad (candied gizzards, corn, pine nuts, smoked duck breasts), confit of duck legs or beef " Blonde d'Aquitaine ", Armagnac tourtière (apple puff pastry) and Armagnac coffee pusher.
Housing
- 1 Camping l'Arbre d'Or 75 route du lac - 40160 Parentis-en-Born, 33 558754156