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Le Pyla sur Mer
Bathing in the Basin’s calm waters or taking off to the ocean beaches of Petit-Nice, La Lagune and La Salie with its wharf jutting 500 metres into the ocean – it all depends on how you happen to feel…
One thing is on no account to be missed out on, however – the climb up the
highest dune in Europe, the Great Dune of Pilat (107 metres), from the top of which you can enjoy breathtaking panoramic views
over the whole of the Arcachon Basin and the Atlantic Ocean. Set in the luxuriant greenery of
Europe’s largest forest, from which arise impressive Basque-style houses protected from the sea winds by the surrounding maritime pines, Le Pyla-sur-Mer is also crossed by the GR8, which can carry you off on a fine excursion into the heart of the private forest of La Teste.
Le Pyla sur Mer is nicknamed “the town under the forest”!
Not to be missed: the views of the
Cap-Ferret Peninsula and the Arguin Sandbank from the beach of La Corniche, near Le Pyla’s southern exit.
It was in Le Pyla-sur-Mer – at the “Camping de la Dune” to be more exact (which has since been rebaptised “Flots Bleus”) – that the films,
“Camping 1 and 2” were made.
La Teste-de-Buch Tourist Office
+33 5 56 54 63 14 www.tourisme-latestedebuch.fr
Le Pyla-sur-Mer Tourist Information Point
+33 5 56 54 02 22
Bon à savoir : Pyla ou Pilat ?
Le créateur de la station, Daniel Meller, a choisi de modifier l'orthographe gasconne du mot « Pilat » (tas de sable, en référence à l’immense dune toute proche), pour donner une touche d’exotisme à son œuvre, d’où le Pyla-sur-Mer.
