Thermes de Mimizan-Plage
- Location
- Mimizan-Plage, Landes, France
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 37 °C
- pH
- 7.3
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Thermes de Mimizan-Plage in the Landes department of southwestern France offers chloride mineral spring bathing at the interface of two extraordinary natural landscapes: the Atlantic Ocean's powerful surf coast and the vast Landes forest—the largest maritime pine forest in Europe, planted in the nineteenth century to stabilize the coastal dunes and now a remarkable ecological landscape of over a million hectares of pine woodland stretching from the Gironde to the Basque Country. Mimizan-Plage has developed an integrated tourism offering that pairs thalassotherapy-style saltwater and mineral treatment with the Atlantic surfing culture that has made the Landes coast one of Europe's most important surf destinations, creating a wellness offer that attracts both the therapeutic visitor seeking mineral recovery and the athletic surfer seeking post-ocean physical restoration. The combination of pine forest, Atlantic surf, and mineral spring bathing gives Mimizan-Plage a triple natural resource of exceptional diversity and therapeutic completeness.