Saint-Paul-lès-Dax

Saint-Paul-lès-Dax in the Landes département forms with the adjacent city of Dax one of France's largest and most productive thermal spa agglomerations, drawing from deep artesian springs rising at 60°C from the Tertiary limestone aquifer beneath the Landes plain in an area that processes over sixty thousand thermal visitors annually, making the greater Dax thermal basin the most frequented thermal region in France. The warm, moderately mineralised spring water of Saint-Paul-lès-Dax feeds numerous hotel-spa complexes across both banks of the Adour River, offering rheumatological and rehabilitation programmes within a major urban spa agglomeration that has maintained its position as France's foremost thermal destination for rheumatism and musculoskeletal care despite increasing competition from alternative wellness offerings. The Basque cultural traditions of the surrounding Landes and Pays Basque, the Atlantic beaches of the Côte d'Argent just thirty kilometres away, and the exceptional local gastronomy of the Landes and Basque Country complete the leisure offer around this remarkably productive thermal destination.