Discover La Londe by bike - Between land and sea

Free parking opposite the Jardin des Oliviers in La Londe les Maures.Free car park with 82 spaces, opposite the Jardin des Oliviers and close to La Londe les Maures town centre Also has 2 disabled spaces and 2 spaces with charging points for electric vehicles.

Free parking all year round.Free all-year-round car park with 1,000 spaces, a 5-minute walk from the Port Miramar in La Londe les Maures Also has 4 disabled parking spaces and 2 motorbike parking spaces.

A relaxing and fun nature area for the whole family in La Londe les Maures!Espace Naturel Sensible de la Brûlade: a natural haven between town, sea and leisure activities! Located at the confluence of the Pansard and Maravenne rivers, the Espace Naturel Sensible de la Brûlade offers over 6 hectares of unspoilt nature in the heart of La Londe les Maures. Freely accessible all year round, this green lung is a great place to relax, work out and enjoy outdoor activities as a family. Easily accessible on foot or by bike via the Promenade des Annamites, which links the town centre to the seafront, this natural area invites you to take a break from discovery, sport and relaxation. An area designed for all the family! L'Espace Naturel Sensible de la Brûlade offers a wide range of facilities in an environment that respects biodiversity: - Play areas for children : climbing pyramids, climbing pyramids, a fortified castle and a 30-metre zip line - Ball games area and sports facilities - Skate park close to the sports facilities - Petanque courts for a friendly game of bowls - Picnic areas for a break from the hustle and bustle of the daynique areas to enjoy a break in the countryside - Discovery trails and walks accessible to all - Health trails to keep fit - Relaxation areas to recharge your batteries in peace and quiet Whether you come to play, walk, do sport or simply enjoy the surroundings, the Espace Naturel Sensible de la Brûlade has become a must for families and nature lovers alike. What is an Espace Naturel Sensible? Espaces Naturels Sensibles (ENS) are outstanding natural sites, recognised for their ecological wealth and biodiversity. Located in coastal, forest or wetland environments, they are managed specifically to preserve their balance while allowing the public to discover them. These areas have several objectives: - to preserve landscapes and remarkable sites - to protect fauna, flora and natural habitats - to encourage the public to visit them in an environmentally-friendly way La Brûlade is a perfect example of this desire to reconcile the protection of biodiversity, outdoor leisure activities and raising awareness of nature. Find out more about the Espaces Naturels Sensibles in the Var: var.fr/environnement/ens

Historic district with a concentration of remarkable sites and buildings from all periods of history. One of the oldest districts, which has probably been inhabited since the Iron Age with the establishment of an oppidum.This area, steeped in history, can be considered the historic heart of La Londe, with traces of human occupation dating back to Antiquity, perhaps even as far back as the Iron Age, and its architectural heritage: - Château des Bormettes, an agricultural bastide built between 1588 and 1642 by the Carthusian monks of La Verne, which is steeped in monastic architecture (bell tower, pediment engraved with religious symbols, large vaulted room housing the fittings of an oil mill converted into a wine storehouse). The first known wine estate in the area. Private site, open to the public on a guided tour. - Horace Vernet's château, built around 1860 as a late-life holiday home for Louis-Philippe's official painter, enlarged and decorated by Victor Roux, a wealthy financier from Marseille and concession-holder for the Bormettes mines. The château's keep tower was built by the architect Gaudensi Allar (architect of the Musée d'Art de Toulon) and decorated with polychrome ceramic bas-reliefs on the façade by the sculptor André Allar, winner of the Grand Prix de Rome. Private site, partly accessible only on guided tours. - Château neuf des Bormettes, a middle-class residence built in the 1890s, once owned by the Roux family. Private site, off-limits - Former industrial railway line, now used by the Annamites footpath - Coron-style workers' housing estate built between 1913 and 1920 to house the staff of the Schneider armaments factory. It is made up of 4 rows of similar dwellings of 3 types (semi-detached villas, houses and maisonettes in strips with a garden on one side and a courtyard on the other) as well as individual villas, built around two central squares, a village hall-theatre and a bar that are still in use, and a food cooperative. There is also a rectangular building housing the post office and telegraph, a circular building housing the electricity transformer and a water tower. A rare example of a coron in the Mediterranean, and still inhabited. - Schneider armaments factory, set up in 1912 to manufacture torpedoes, housing a 1,000m² brick workshop with overhead travelling cranes inside, covered by a metal framework and a sheds roof. This major Eiffel-style industrial building bears witness to the importance of this economic activity until 1993. Private site, not open to the public. - Remains of the longest chimney-tunnel of a lead smelter in Europe, built in 1897 over a length of almost 1 km on the slopes of a hill. It is the most impressive architectural reminder of La Londe's important mining activity. Built as an experiment to improve the quality of galena, it was abandoned in 1906 due to lack of profitability. Private site to which access is forbidden. - Remains of a castrum, a medieval fortified town (probably built on a Celto-Ligurian oppidum) occupied from the mid-13th to the 14th century at the latest. One of the oldest human settlement sites in the commune, possibly the first village. The archaeological site is located on private property, to which access is forbidden.

To the west of Miramar beach in La Londe les Maures, the Bastidon pine forest extends over 19 hectares of maritime pines. An exceptionally fragile preserved area, on the seafront under the protection of the Conservatoire du Littoral.Upstream from the coastal path and downstream from agricultural land, this 19-hectare natural area, mainly made up of pinion pines, is an exceptional preserved site between the Pansard campsite and the Baie des Isles residences. Its name testifies to the fact that it was once attached to the Bastidon wine estate, which belonged to Henry Potez, a great pioneer of the aeronautics industry. Owned by the Conservatoire du Littoral, classified and protected since 1990, it is managed and maintained by the commune. Since 2017, thinning by cutting pine trees has allowed young oaks to grow and the herbaceous and shrub layer to recover. Regeneration is also ensured by the installation of ganivelles. From September to June, the site is maintained through eco-pasturing by donkeys, which encourages the diversification of the vegetation by eliminating certain invasive grasses and contributes to the natural fertilisation of the soil. Next to the pine forest, a reed bed and wet meadows complete the range of habitats and enrich the landscape diversity of this site.

Armoured stone boundary marker used to demarcate old propertiesThis sandstone bollard, attached to the bank wall of a stream, is embellished in bas-relief on two opposite sides. On one side, the shield represents two greyhounds, the identification of which remains enigmatic to this day. On the opposite side, the coat of arms is identified as that of the Agoult-Pontevès, two of the oldest and most illustrious noble families of Provence, the second of which has been present in the Var since the end of the 10th century. Their union was sealed in 1213, but the origin of the heraldic arms of the Agoult-Pontevès family dates back to 1251 when Foulques 1st, their 6th child, inherited and took their name. The presence of these lords in the Hyères region is attested to at least as far back as the end of the 15th century by the remains of the Château de Giens (Hyères), marking the territory of this seigneury until 1691 and of a marquisate until 1832. The marker's dating therefore covers a wide period! Restored in 2016, this marker is recognised as an archaeological entity on the national archaeological map.