Le Bouscat: Parks, Culture and Hotels

When looking for a hotel in Le Bouscat, you can start by considering what you would like your stay to include: walks and green spaces, swimming or cultural events. The town offers several specific options, from a five-hectare urban woodland to an event hall with 375 seats.

Green spaces with different features

The Bois du Bouscat is a five-hectare urban woodland. Its features include artworks and a walking loop, as well as an apiary, a gardener’s hut and an educational feature by a pond. A monthly events calendar lists activities in the Bois. If you have a particular date in mind, check the town’s latest information before visiting.

The Parc de la Chêneraie also covers five hectares. Its focal points are the historic Castel d’Andorte and a varied range of plantings, including oaks, cork oaks and magnolias. The two green spaces are easy to compare because they cover the same area, but their stated focuses differ: the Bois combines nature education and walking, while the Chêneraie brings together parkland and historic architecture.

Other parks offer different features. A 1.7-hectare wooded park with distinctive plane trees is suitable for walking and relaxing. A park in the town centre covers 2.5 hectares, with varied plantings and seasonal flower beds. Its distinctive features include a rose garden created in 1925 and a plant maze. This gives you a choice between a wooded park, a centrally located garden space and the two five-hectare sites.

Walks, horse racing and swimming

The Chemin des courses is a 2.7-kilometre walking loop around the racecourse and the Bois du Bouscat. Its set length gives you a clear framework for a walk. By comparison, the parks focus more on trees, plantings, nature education or places to relax.

The Hippodrome Bordeaux-Le Bouscat hosts more than 32 race meetings a year, with over 230 races in the disciplines of pace, trot and gallop. These annual figures may change. If a race is important to your travel plans, check the latest event dates in advance.

The Piscine Municipale du Bouscat is another specific option to consider when planning your leisure time. It reopened to the public on 1 August 2025, after two years of construction work. The facility has a small 10-metre pool and a large 25-metre pool. Its programme includes baby swimming and water familiarisation, aqua fitness, swimming lessons for beginners and advanced swimmers, and training for swimming and underwater sports clubs. The two pool sizes and the broad range of classes and training options provide different details to take into account when planning your visit.

Culture and architectural history

The Parc de la Chêneraie combines parkland with the history of the Castel d’Andorte, which is listed in the supplementary inventory of historic monuments. Another trace of the site’s architectural history is the Maison Noble des Castel d’Andorte, built in 1785 by Victor-Louis, the architect of the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux. The park hosts numerous cultural and other events throughout the year; specific programmes vary by season.

L’Ermitage-Compostelle hosts the programme for the town’s cultural season. Events there include a children’s book fair, exhibitions, conferences and concerts by the music school; the event hall has 375 seats. La Source offers a programme of public events each quarter and hosts some of the highlights of Le Bouscat’s cultural season. If you would like to plan a visit around an event, check the relevant dates and seasonal programmes.

Transport options in one place

At the Sainte-Germaine du Bouscat multimodal transport hub, passengers can use the tram, train, bus and bicycle in one place. For your travel planning, this is a location where these four modes of transport come together. Check the latest transport options before travelling.

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