La Londe discovery tour - Between land and sea

Free car park with 82 spaces, located opposite the Jardin des Oliviers and a 5-minute walk from the centre of La Londe les Maures Also has 2 disabled spaces and 2 spaces with charging points for electric vehicles.

To make the most of your stay, our advisors are on hand to answer your questions and give you ideas for visits and discoveries throughout the year.To enjoy everything during your stay! All year round, our visits and stays advisors are at your disposal to answer your requests and give you ideas to enrich your stay. - Information - advice - Tickets at preferential rates - Availability of accommodation - Shop - Free wifi Take advantage of ticketing at smart prices for better value for money for your holiday with "Amusez-vous" in the Mediterranean Porte des Maures : Water sports, mini-train rides, children's games, amusement parks, animal parks, coastal walks, a day at the Golden Islands, a cruise to Saint-Tropez, adventure parks, museums, guided nature, terroir and heritage tours and many other activities... Visit our shop: We have many items made in France! A poster of La Londe les Maures imagined by the artist Monsieur Z, a driftwood garland from the artisanal workshop Latitude Mer, scented candles, scents of Provence... Our shop is ideal to bring back a beautiful souvenir of your holidays in the colours of Provence!

A relaxing and fun nature area for the whole family in La Londe les Maures!The Espace Naturel Sensible de La Brûlade covers 6 hectares at the confluence of the Pansard and Maravenne rivers. The Promenade des Annamites crosses the nature area, making it easy to reach on foot or by bike from the town centre or the seafront. This veritable green lung, open all year round, is a meeting point for nature, sport and the family. L'Espace Naturel Sensible (ENS) de la Brûlade offers a range of environmentally-friendly facilities, including : - games for children (double pyramid for climbing, a fortress-type game, a 30-metre zip line), - ball games area, - boules games, - picnic area, - discovery and walking trail, - health trail, - relaxation area. A skate park has also been set up next to the ball games area.

Historic district with a concentration of remarkable sites and buildings from all periods of history. One of the oldest districts, which has probably been inhabited since the Iron Age with the establishment of an oppidum.This area, steeped in history, can be considered the historic heart of La Londe, with traces of human occupation dating back to Antiquity, perhaps even as far back as the Iron Age, and its architectural heritage: - Château des Bormettes, an agricultural bastide built between 1588 and 1642 by the Carthusian monks of La Verne, which is steeped in monastic architecture (bell tower, pediment engraved with religious symbols, large vaulted room housing the fittings of an oil mill converted into a wine storehouse). The first known wine estate in the area. Private site, open to the public on a guided tour. - Horace Vernet's château, built around 1860 as a late-life holiday home for Louis-Philippe's official painter, enlarged and decorated by Victor Roux, a wealthy financier from Marseille and concession-holder for the Bormettes mines. The château's keep tower was built by the architect Gaudensi Allar (architect of the Musée d'Art de Toulon) and decorated with polychrome ceramic bas-reliefs on the façade by the sculptor André Allar, winner of the Grand Prix de Rome. Private site, partly accessible only on guided tours. - Château neuf des Bormettes, a middle-class residence built in the 1890s, once owned by the Roux family. Private site, off-limits - Former industrial railway line, now used by the Annamites footpath - Coron-style workers' housing estate built between 1913 and 1920 to house the staff of the Schneider armaments factory. It is made up of 4 rows of similar dwellings of 3 types (semi-detached villas, houses and maisonettes in strips with a garden on one side and a courtyard on the other) as well as individual villas, built around two central squares, a village hall-theatre and a bar that are still in use, and a food cooperative. There is also a rectangular building housing the post office and telegraph, a circular building housing the electricity transformer and a water tower. A rare example of a coron in the Mediterranean, and still inhabited. - Schneider armaments factory, set up in 1912 to manufacture torpedoes, housing a 1,000m² brick workshop with overhead travelling cranes inside, covered by a metal framework and a sheds roof. This major Eiffel-style industrial building bears witness to the importance of this economic activity until 1993. Private site, not open to the public. - Remains of the longest chimney-tunnel of a lead smelter in Europe, built in 1897 over a length of almost 1 km on the slopes of a hill. It is the most impressive architectural reminder of La Londe's important mining activity. Built as an experiment to improve the quality of galena, it was abandoned in 1906 due to lack of profitability. Private site to which access is forbidden. - Remains of a castrum, a medieval fortified town (probably built on a Celto-Ligurian oppidum) occupied from the mid-13th to the 14th century at the latest. One of the oldest human settlement sites in the commune, possibly the first village. The archaeological site is located on private property, to which access is forbidden.

To the west of Miramar beach in La Londe les Maures, the Bastidon pine forest extends over 19 hectares of maritime pines. An exceptionally fragile preserved area, on the seafront under the protection of the Conservatoire du Littoral.Upstream from the coastal path and downstream from agricultural land, this 19-hectare natural area, mainly made up of pinion pines, is an exceptional preserved site between the Pansard campsite and the Baie des Isles residences. Its name testifies to the fact that it was once attached to the Bastidon wine estate, which belonged to Henry Potez, a great pioneer of the aeronautics industry. Owned by the Conservatoire du Littoral, classified and protected since 1990, it is managed and maintained by the commune. Since 2017, thinning by cutting pine trees has allowed young oaks to grow and the herbaceous and shrub layer to recover. Regeneration is also ensured by the installation of ganivelles. From September to June, the site is maintained through eco-pasturing by donkeys, which encourages the diversification of the vegetation by eliminating certain invasive grasses and contributes to the natural fertilisation of the soil. Next to the pine forest, a reed bed and wet meadows complete the range of habitats and enrich the landscape diversity of this site.

Armoured stone boundary marker used to demarcate old propertiesSandstone bollard, attached to the wall of a river bank, with a bas-relief coat of arms on two opposite sides. On one side, a coat of arms identified as that of the Agoult-Pontevès, two of the oldest and most illustrious families of Provence, established in the Hyères region from the 16th century. On the opposite side, a shield representing two greyhounds, whose identification remains enigmatic. Restoration work in 2016 revealed the opposite side and the coat of arms. Recognised as an archaeological feature on the national archaeological map.