Andernos-les-Bains, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
I. Population and Area
Total Area: 20, 01 km2 (7.72 sq mi)
Population in 2017: 11 645
Population Density: 582 /km2 (1508 /sq mi)
II. Natural Geography (environment and resources)
The town is located on the eastern shore of the Arcachon basin, northeast of Arcachon and north of the country of Buch, in the moors of Gascony.
The neighboring municipalities are Ares to the north-northeast and Lanton to the southeast and, more precisely, the gap from Taussat.
Communications and transport:
1. Bus lines:
Regular connections:
1) Lège-Cap-Ferret / Bordeaux via Andernos by CITRAM bus no 601
2) Andernos / Facture-Biganos by CITRAM Aquitaine bus no 610.
Free bus to go to the market on Friday:
The City offers a free bus transport service, to the city center and back, every Friday morning (except public holidays). Two circuits serve the entire town to go to the open-air market or shop in the city's shops from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
2. Air transport:
1) Andernos-les-Bains is 40 km from Bordeaux - Mérignac Airport.( Cedex 40 - 33700 MÉRIGNAC, tel: +33 (0) 5.56.34.50.50.)
2) Andernos-les-Bains aerodrome is 3 km from the city center.
3. SNCF stations:
Andernos-les Bains is located at:
1) 20 km from Facture-Biganos train station(Place du Général de Gaulle- 33380 BIGANOS-FACTURE National SNCF, tel: 36 35);
2) 50 km from Bordeaux SNCF station (Bordeaux-Saint-Jean station).
The city was previously served by the line from Lesparre to Saint-Symphorien which linked Lesparre-Médoc to Saint-Symphorien via Hourtin, Arès, Biganos, Mios, Belin-Béliet and a few other smaller stations. The line was cleared and turned into a cycle path and the old Andernos station became the town's tourist office.
III. GDP
l Employment income (%): 72.6 (2016)
l Poverty rate by age group of the tax advisor(%): 8 (2017)
l Average employment income (€):2, 755 net per month (33, 058 net per year)（2014）
IV. Industrial Characterisitics
Number of companies by business sector as of December 31, 2017:
1) Industry: 5.3%
2) Construction: 13.0%
3) Trade, transport, accommodation and restaurants: 31.4%
4) Commercial business services: 25.8%
5) Merchant services to individuals: 24.4%
There are three activity zones in Andernos: the Center for Handicrafts and Semi-Industrial Activities (CAASI) with more than 300 companies, the city center hosting local shops and services and the oyster port mainly dedicated to oyster farming and traditional fishing. It is the Community of Agglomeration of the Arcachon North Basin -COBAN-, which has in particular the mission, the economic development of the territory, the creation, the development, the maintenance and the management of industrial activity zones, commercial, tertiary, craft, port.
Mediatheque
1) Operation of the Mediatheque
The Media Library, a public service for all, offers the possibility of consulting free of charge more than 20,000 documents (books, CDs, DVDs) in free access and of borrowing after registration. It also has a grain library and a vegetable garden.
2) Contact: Esplanade du Broustic -33510 Andernos-les-Bains
Tel. + 33 (0) 5.56.03.93.93.
3) Multimedia and digital space
Digital resources: 7 computer stations + 5 tablets, 2 PS4 consoles and 1 touchscreen listening terminal.
Free computer / multimedia workshops all year round.
Multimedia Contact: Tel. +33 (0) 5.56.26.93.85
Contact the Multimedia Space
4) Animations - cultural actions of the Mediatheque
Regular meetings: diplo cafe, board games, nursery rhymes and somersaults workshops, sewing, grain library and vegetable garden, Happy Hour of storytelling ...
Highlights: the Night of Reading, The Scum of Words, literary weekend, Going on a book, literary meetings….
5) Book boxes in town and on the beach
Free access to drop off, pick up or consult a structure: Esplanade de la jée, Plage du Bétey, Parc Aurélien de Sarrau (near Saint-Eloi church).
V. Attractions
1. La Maison Louis-David (Louis-David House)
Near the city center, the Villa Ignota, built in several stages from 1908 to 191421, has the characteristics of seaside architecture from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Property of Louis Théodore David, mayor of Andernos from 1905 to 1929, abandoned after his death, it was acquired by the municipality and restored in 1978. Today a cultural center called "Maison municipale Louis-David", it houses the city museum where part of the remains found on the site of the Gallo-Roman ruins is kept, as well as a collection of old coins, municipal archives and manuscripts. It also hosts throughout the year numerous exhibitions of painting and plastic arts. This villa is surrounded by the “Louis-David” park, where you can see the tomb of Louis Théodore David made by the famous Parisian sculptor of the 1930s Raymond Delamarre22.
From March to October, the rooms of the Maison Louis David host exhibitions of visual arts: painting, sculpture, photography, digital arts ... you can always find something you’re interested in.
2. La jetée d'Andernos-les-Bains(Andernos-les-Bains pier)
The pier at Andernos-les-Bains is the longest in the basin at 232 meters. This work, imagined well before the First World War by Louis David, was not built until 1926. Originally, the pier at Andernos-les-Bains was to measure twice the current length. It was restored and widened in 1995 by the architect Pierre Raffy, and extended by a nautical stop in order to reach the channel still in water. From there, you can see the tchanquées huts as well as the entrance to the Arcachon bay.
3. Le musée municipal(The municipal museum)
Located in the Maison Louis David, in the city center, The municipal museum evokes the history of Andernos-les-Bains through two periods:
1) Prehistory: exhibition of flint and prehistoric tools discovered on the prehistoric site of Bétey, which attest to a prehistoric occupation from 8,500 to 2,500 BC.
2) Antiquity and the Middle Ages: exhibition of Gallo-Roman and medieval objects discovered during excavations of the Gallo-Roman villa in 1903, on the Saint-Éloi site. Ancient photos tell the story of the discovery of this 2,000-year-old ancient building.
Address :
Avenue Pasteur, at the corner of avenue Vergniaud.
VI. History
Andernos has been inhabited since recent Prehistory, that is, for around 10,000 years. This occupation is evidenced by the discovery of thousands of objects on the banks and the mouth of the stream "Le Bétey". It is a major prehistoric site on the Atlantic coast.
In Gallo-Roman times, Andernos was an important city. The Gallo-Roman village was destroyed by the barbarian invasions. There are nevertheless vestiges of it, next to the Saint-Éloi church, not far from the oyster port. They were first interpreted as those of a basilica; but the latest research leans more towards those of a huge Gallo-Roman villa built near the coast.
For more information on the town in the 18th century, see the work of Jacques Baurein.
During the Revolution, the parish of Saint-Éloi d'Andernos formed the commune of Andernos.
The castle of Andernos, now a national asset, was located about 2 km from the church and the basin. It has completely disappeared, destroyed in 1845.
In 1851, a large portion to the north and northeast of the municipal territory acquired its autonomy to form the municipality of Ares.
The city of Andernos officially takes the name of Andernos-les-Bains by decree of December 13, 1897.
Several important personalities linked to the municipality, Andernos-les-Bains:
1. Sarah Bernhardt stayed in Andernos at the start of the First World War (from September 1914 to October 1915) before and after her amputation in Bordeaux on February 22, 1914.
2. Toulouse-Lautrec resided with the Wurtz family (today Fontainevieille campsite) from 1885 before going to reside in Taussat with his friend Fabre from 189125.
3. David Allègre (1786-1846), Châtelain d'Arès, inventor of the world's first steam trawler, was a municipal councilor, general councilor, justice of the peace.
4. Pierre Anglade (1921-1946), BIMP officer, Companion of the Liberation 26.
Heraldry:
The arms of Andernos-les-Bains are emblazoned as follows:
"Azure with a golden sailboat sailing on a sea of Vert charged with a swimming dolphin sewn from the field, the tail rounded, also in the sun moving gold from the sennest angle of the chief, to the chief sewn Gules charged of a golden leopard."
VII. Other information
The city of Andernos-les-Bains is rich with more than 200 associations and has several sports centers:
1. a tennis club with ten courts, two of which are covered and an outdoor stand
2. a football club with five fields, two with changing rooms and a 500-seat grandstand;
3. a room for handball, volleyball, badminton, gymnastics;
4. a five-hole golf course;
5. a center for sailing;
6. a municipal swimming pool;
7. and also a tourist aerodrome, an equestrian center, billiard, dance, judo, boxing and other martial arts clubs, a pétanque club, a baseball club, a skate park, a mini-golf, a shooting and archery club, triathlon.
In all, the city has 53 sports clubs.
The town of Andernos-les-Bains has several leisure places, including:
1. a casino;
2. two discos;
3. a cinema with a room that can accommodate 200 people which is the historic cinema of Andernos; however, due to its modest number of seats, a second multiplex cinema must open in a somewhat outlying area, on the site of the old football stadium.
4. La Dolce Vita Cinema offers quality programming all year round: mainstream films, auteur cinema, young audience programming. He organizes or participates in events: wink evening, cinema-taste, Jazz festival, Spain Play your cinema, the Italian Film Festival ...
1) Contact :
La Dolce Vita Cinema
32 avenue de Bordeaux
33510 ANDERNOS LES BAINS
Phone. : +33 (0) 5 56 26 04 30
You can get more information on the site: https://www.veocinemas.fr/ladolcevita-andernos/
2) Prices
Every Monday the session is at 7.20 € for everyone
Full price: € 8.80
Reduced rate: € 6.50 (14 to 18 years old. Students outside university free time. Proof may be requested)
Price -14 years: 4 € (every day and for all sessions)
3D supplement: € 8.80
Price of a seat with the subscription card: € 5.90 (possibility of exchanging your Le Rex cinema subscription card for that of the Dolce Vita)
Cultural Heritage :
The city has a municipal music school, a media library and has several cultural associations:
1. a theater club;
2. a wine club;
3. a chess, bridge, tarot club;
4. dance, history and painting clubs.
Since 2012, the tourist office has had a website allowing you to discover all the beauties of the city.
VIII. Contact information
Andernos-les-Bains town hall address :
Andernos-les-Bains town hall
179 boulevard de la République
BP 30
33510 Andernos-les-Bains
Jean-Yves Rosazza (Mandate: 2014-2020)
Phone number: 05 57 76 11 00
Fax: 05 57 76 11 10
Mail: sgeneral@andernos-les-bains.com
Website : http://www.andernoslesbains.fr