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Wine! Wine! Wine! 300 chateaux to visit within an hour's journey (including Chateau Loudenne, Chateau Mouton Rothschild, Lynch-Bages, Pichon Lonqueville, Beychevelles). There are wine tasting tours covering the most prestigious and fabulous wines of France. The new “Winery” at Arsac on the way to Bordeaux is a 15-hectare park devoted to art, sculpture and the grape.
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The Palmyre zoo is the largest in France (over 1600 different species) with spectacular polar bear viewing, sea lion spectacles and a children's zoo from which it can be very difficult to persuade your children to leave!
A visit to Cordouan Lighthouse is a good day outing for children and adults alike, including a boat trip and a climb to the top. The Lighthouse has beautiful architecture, with frescoes and a chapel, and has just been saved for posterity by giant underpinning works over the last year.
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The Hourtin area benefits from a great beach with the lake virtually alongside. Visit the little lakeside hamlet of Piqueyrot by turning left on the way to Hourtin Plage where small children will enjoy paddling and swimming in the shallow water as a change from the big waves on the Atlantic coast of the Medoc.
