Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Saint-Paul-lès-Dax, France
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3.3 km
45 m
Explore Saint-Paul-lès-Dax in France with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Sight 1: Église Saint-Paul-l'Ermite
The church of Saint-Paul is located in the commune of Saint-Paul-lès-Dax, in the Landes department of France. It is a stop on the way to Tours on the way to Santiago de Compostela. It was built on a hill known for its abundance of springs.
Sight 2: Maurice Boyau
Maurice Jean-Paul Boyau was a French rugby union player and a leading French ace of the First World War with 35 victories, and one of the most successful balloon busters. Balloon busting was the dangerous act of bringing down enemy observation balloons; these balloons were densely protected by anti-aircraft artillery and patrol flights.
Sight 3: Arènes de Dax
The Dax Arena, located in the Théodore-Denis Park in Dax, was built in 1913. Bullfights and the Grand Concours Landais are organised there on the occasion of the Dax festival and the Toros y Salsa festival, on the second weekend of September. They are part of the seven French first-category arenas, the others being those of Bayonne, Mont-de-Marsan, Vic-Fezensac, Nîmes, Béziers and Arles.
Sight 4: Enceinte gallo-romaine
The Gallo-Roman wall of Dax was a fortification that protected the town of Dax during the Late Roman Empire.
Sight 5: Fontaine Chaude
La Fontaine chaude is a spa located in the centre of Dax. The fountain itself is a Monument historique since 1946, while the portico and the remains of older structures around the fountain were registered on September 9, 1988.
Sight 6: Crypte Archéologique
Dax's archaeological crypt belonged to a civil basilica, a public meeting place where many activities of civic life took place; Justice was done in particular.
Sight 7: Musée de Borda
The Musée de Borda was created in Dax in the Landes in 1807 by the municipality, when it bought the cabinet of curiosities of Jacques-François de Borda d'Oro, an eighteenth-century Landes naturalist; this man and his illustrious nephew Jean-Charles de Borda became the godfathers of the museum, hence its name.
Sight 8: Hôtel Spa Le Splendid
The Splendid hotel is located in the town of Dax, in the French department of Landes. The building, for its facades and roofs, as well as inside, the big hall and its decor, the dining rooms and their decor, the large smoking lounge with its decor, the stairs with their ramps and their stained glass windows, and Finally, the thermal fountain in the small west hall, is registered as historic monuments by decree of December 18, 1991.
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