The Piscine Municipale du Bouscat reopened to the public on August 1, 2025, after two years of construction work. It offers baby swimming and water familiarisation classes, aqua fitness classes, swimming lessons for beginners and advanced swimmers, as well as training for swimming and underwater sports clubs. The Piscine Municipale du Bouscat has a small pool measuring 10 metres in length and a large pool measuring 25 metres in length.
Anyone wishing to rent a holiday apartment in Le Bouscat should consider this place as a travel destination.
At the Sainte-Germaine du Bouscat multimodal transport hub, passengers can use trams, trains, buses and bicycles in the same location.
Nature
The 5-hectare Bois du Bouscat is an urban woodland and an educational resource about nature in the city. It includes artworks, a walking loop, an apiary, an educational module by a pond and a gardener’s hut; a monthly events calendar provides information about activities taking place there.
The 5-hectare Parc de la Chêneraie combines the historic Castel d’Andorte with diverse plantings of oak, cork oak and magnolia trees. Castel d’Andorte is located in this park, which hosts numerous cultural and other events throughout the year.
A 1.7-hectare wooded park with distinctive plane trees is ideal for walking and relaxing. A 2.5-hectare park in the town centre is characterised by diverse plantings and seasonal flower beds, a rose garden created in 1925 and a plant maze.
Culture
The Maison Noble des Castel d’Andorte was built in 1785 by Victor-Louis, the architect of Bordeaux’s Grand Théâtre. Castel d’Andorte is listed in the supplementary inventory of historic monuments.
L’Ermitage-Compostelle hosts the programme of the municipal cultural season as well as numerous events, including the young adult book fair, exhibitions, conferences and concerts by the music school. The event hall has 375 seats.
La Source offers a quarterly programme of public events and hosts some of the highlights of Le Bouscat’s cultural season.
Activities
The Chemin des courses is an approximately 2.7-kilometre walking loop around the racecourse and the Bois du Bouscat.
The Hippodrome Bordeaux-Le Bouscat racecourse hosts more than 32 race days each year, with over 230 races in the disciplines of walk, trot and gallop.
