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Chalosse marks an important geographical boundary along the Atlantic
coast, Cote d'Argent, where the terrain turns from Pyrenees foothills to flat plains that
continues up to Bordeaux. The flat lands from Chalosse to Bordeaux are almost completely
wooded (550,000 hectares), which makes the Landais forest, the largest natural pine forest
remaining in Western Europe.
Chalosse marks the territory South of the Pine Forest and North of the
Gave de Pau - a frontier that separated it historically and culturally from the Pays
Basque and Bearn. Settled from Roman times, with a town and baths at Dax which is now the N°.1 Thermal Town of France,
Chalosse was part of Roman Aquitaine, a county of Gascony and then of Guyenne. Through the
middle ages, Chalosse was ruled by the English and controlled through the Capital Dax,
which was the largest southern-most French town, close to the ports of Capbreton &
Vieux Boucau on the Atlantic coast before the Pays Basque. Today the Chalosse celebrates a
thriving economy with 55% of the sales market of "Foie Gras" in France and the
rest of the world. |
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