Arcachon
Arcachon is a commune in the southwestern French department of Gironde. It is a popular seaside resort on the Atlantic coast 55 kilometres southwest of Bordeaux, in the Landes forest.Notable Places in the Area
Château Deganne
Tourist attraction
Château Deganne is a château in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. Photo: MJJR, CC BY 3.0.
La Teste
Railway station
La Teste is situated 3½ km southeast of Arcachon. Photo: Kvardek du, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Localities in the Area
La Teste-de-Buch
Town
La Teste-de-Buch is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. La Teste-de-Buch is situated 4 km southeast of Arcachon. Photo: Spot Image, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Arcachon
- Location: Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
- Population: 11,300
- Latitude: 44.6613° or 44° 39' 40.5" north
- Longitude: -1.1726° or 1° 10' 21.2" west
- Elevation: 5 meters (16 feet)
- GeoNames ID: 3037253
Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Arcachon
- Akan: Arcachon
- Arabic: آركاشون
- Aragonese: Arcaishon
- Arpitan: Arcachon
- Asturian: Arcachon
- Bambara: Arcachon
- Basque: Arcachon
- Bavarian: Arcachon
- Belarusian: Аркашон
- Breton: Arcaishon
- Buginese: Arcachon
- Cajun French: Arcachon
- Catalan: Arcaishon
- Cebuano: Arcachon
- Chechen: Аркашон
- Chinese: 阿卡雄
- Chinese: 阿尔卡雄
- Corsican: Arcachon
- Croatian: Arcachon
- Czech: Arcachon
- Danish: Arcachon
- Dutch: Arcachon
- Esperanto: Arcachon
- Estonian: Arcachon
- Faroese: Arcachon
- Finnish: Arcachon
- French: Arcachon
- Friulian: Arcachon
- Galician: Arcachon
- German: Arcachon
- Greek: Αρκασόν
- Hebrew: ארקאשון
- Hungarian: Arcachon
- Icelandic: Arcachon
- Ido: Arcachon
- Indonesian: Arcachon
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Arcachon
- Interlingue: Arcachon
- Irish: Arcachon
- Italian: Arcachon
- Jamaican Creole English: Arcachon
- Japanese: アルカション
- Kabyle: Arcachon
- Kalaallisut: Arcachon
- Kazakh: Аркашон
- Kongo: Arcachon
- Latin: Arcachon
- Latvian: Arcachon
- Ligurian: Arcachon
- Limburgan: Arcachon
- Lithuanian: Arkašonas
- Low German: Arcachon
- Luxembourgish: Arcachon
- Mainfränkisch: Arcachon
- Malagasy: Arcachon
- Malay: Arcachon
- Min Nan Chinese: Arcachon
- Minangkabau: Arcachon
- Narom: Arcachon
- Neapolitan: Arcachon
- Norwegian Bokmål: Arcachon
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Arcachon
- Occitan (post 1500): Arcaishon
- Pampanga: Arcachon
- Papiamento: Arcachon
- Persian: آرکاشون
- Picard: Arcachon
- Piemontese: Arcachon
- Polish: Arcachon
- Portuguese: Arcachon
- Prussian: Arcachon
- Romagnol: Arcachon
- Romanian: Arcachon
- Romansh: Arcachon
- Russian: Аркашон
- Sardinian: Arcachon
- Scots: Arcachon
- Scottish Gaelic: Arcachon
- Serbian: Arkašon
- Serbian: Аркашон
- Serbo-Croatian: Arcachon
- Sicilian: Arcachon
- Slovak: Arcachon
- Slovenian: Arcachon
- South Azerbaijani: آرکاشون
- Spanish: Arcachón
- Swahili: Arcachon
- Swedish: Arcachon
- Swiss German: Arcachon
- Turkish: Arcachon
- Ukrainian: Аркашон
- Uzbek: Arcachon
- Venetian: Arcachon
- Vietnamese: Arcachon
- Vlaams: Arcachon
- Volapük: Arcachon
- Walloon: Arcachon
- Waray (Philippines): Arcachon
- Welsh: Arcachon
- Wolof: Arcachon
- Zulu: Arcachon
- 33120
- 33311 CEDEX
- 33312 CEDEX
- 33313 CEDEX
- 33314 CEDEX
- 33319 CEDEX
- Commune-Franklin
- FRARC
- XAC
In the Area
Localities
- Ville d'ÉtéSuburb
- Ville d'HiverSuburb
- Ville de PrintempsSuburb
- CamicasHamlet, 1½ km south
- Les AbatillesSuburb, 1½ km southwest
- PereireSuburb, 1½ km southwest
Notable Places
- Le MauresqueCafé
- Chapelle Sainte-Jeanne-d'ArcChurch
- Parc du Casino MauresquePark
- Villa TérésaBuilding
- Synagogue OsirisSynagogue
- OlympiaTheater
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust
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