Capital of the Landes, Mont de Marsan is a city that is both urban and very natural.
Take advantage of a trip to the city center to do some shopping and meet the local merchants.
Built in the 14th century, a vestige of the city’s defense works, this former barracks houses the Despiau-Wlérick museum, the first museum in France devoted to figurative sculpture from the 1st half of the 20th century.
They were built in 1889, enlarged in 1933 on the model of the Andalusian arenas.
It posts the name of the poet and novelist from the Landes (1858 > 1942). It houses the equestrian statue of Marshal Foch, a wooden replica of the one that sits in the middle of the Place du Trocadéro in Paris. Nearly 80 species of trees and Japanese garden.
On 4 hectares, in the shade of large oaks, live many species of animals, llamas, fallow deer, emus, cow, Patagonian hare and a hundred birds. Playground for the little ones.