Thalasso du Bassin d'Arcachon

Thalasso du Bassin d'Arcachon in Arcachon, Gironde, France, offers iodine-rich Atlantic thalassotherapy on the largest coastal lagoon in France—the Arcachon Basin, a 155-square-kilometer tidal lagoon sheltered from the full force of the Atlantic by the Landes dune barrier, whose waters produce 10,000 tons of oysters annually in one of the world's most important oyster cultivation areas and whose natural productivity creates a particularly mineral-rich marine environment for thalassotherapy. The Dune du Pilat, ten kilometers from Arcachon—the highest sand dune in Europe at 110 meters, rising from the flat pine forest landscape in a dramatic and improbable geological monument—provides the physical challenge that makes thalassotherapy recovery an earned and particularly valued experience. The Arcachon oyster tradition, the extraordinary Dune du Pilat, and the Atlantic thalassotherapy mineral richness create an Arcachon experience of exceptional gastronomic, geological, and therapeutic Atlantic coastal completeness.