France’s leading spa destination is an active, festive, cultural city with many shops and great assets: unique monuments such as the archaeological crypt of the Borda Museum, dating from the first century, Gallo-Roman ramparts, the Fontaine Chaude, Atrium auditorium, still impregnated with the essence of the Roaring Twenties, the Hotel & Spa Le Splendid, a 1920s palace and world masterpiece of Art Deco, and Les Thermes, a modern residence designed by Jean Nouvel. Dax is also home to a multitude of shops, bars, restaurants and a casino, market halls dedicated to gastronomy in the heart of the city, the largest market in the department which occupies the whole city centre every Saturday morning, and a certain sense of celebration, which is illustrated every year around the 15th of August with the famous Feria!