Located between Marseilles and the Camargue, with three natural water levels in the vicinity (pond of Berre, of Olivier and Entressen), Istres is a pleasant city offering a varied and complete range of cultural and sporting leisures.

Old Istres will allure you by his charm typically of Provence. In the form of oval, it is around this core, formerly encircled by ramparts, that the city was built little by little. It presents today some beautiful middle-class houses, among others more modest, and pretty shaded places.

By visiting Istres, you will appreciate the many parks and large flowered avenues of the city… the view-point of the church will not miss you Our Lady of Beauvoir which offers a beautiful panorama on the city and its accesses. The oppidum of Castellan will also give you a beautiful point of view on the pond of Olivier.

The sportsmen and they which like the tonic leisures will regale bus Istres is a very sporting city, hyper-equipped it will enable you to practise here your favorite sport without problem… and why not discover you a new passion....

To visit:

The door of Arles (XVIII°). The Church Our Lady of Beauvoir. The Saint-Sulpice vault. The oppidum of Castellan. The archaeological museum (single collection of amphoras in the world) the center of contemporary art. The museum of Istres.

Reception facilities:

10 hotels. 1 center of holidays (with lodgings of group or individual).

1 camp-site. 4 rural lodgings. 32 restaurants. 8 café concerts

Leisures:

Water sports on the ponds. Horsemanship. Tennis. Swimming pool. Squash. Watery park. Bowling. Golf 18 holes with Miramas. Pedestrian excursions

(circuits available to the tourist bureau). Hirings of VTT.

Discotheque. Estival animations, musics, spectacles, exposures all the year.

Many possibilities of training courses all activities, all public!