The vogue for sea bathing attracted a "foreign colony" of highnesses and celebrities, crowned heads, great families, men of letters and lyrical artists. The Pereire brothers, Emile and Isaac, owners of the train line linking Arcachon to Bordeaux, have a brilliant idea to make their train profitable: the construction of sanatoriums. Thermalism appeared in 1923, with the discovery of the Sainte Anne des Abatilles spring
The Balades à Roulettes® (BR®) are short, quiet walks, with a pushchair or a small bicycle, or adapted for people with reduced mobility (in a wheelchair), proposed by the French Federation of Rambling of the Gironde.
Fixed telephone : +33 5 57 52 97 97
e-mail : tourisme@arcachon.com
Web site (URL) : www.arcachon.com/
Web site (URL) : gironde.ffrandonnee.fr/html/2296/balades-a-roulettes
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