The neo-Moorish bullring of 1893, the planted avenues along the Adour, dressed stone and mature trees. Former marshland become one of Bayonne's finest addresses — we guide buyers and sellers here.
Few districts have changed status so completely. The allées Marines were long marshland, drained from the early eighteenth century by planting elms; the Arènes sector, then called Lachepaillet, was in the nineteenth century a poorly regarded stretch of maize fields and market gardens. The bullring was inaugurated there on 30 July 1893, in neo-Moorish style, on the Maledaille plateau overlooking the Adour flood meadows. Today that same sector ranks among the most sought-after addresses in the city. You walk down to buy the morning's fish at the allées Marines fishery, where the boats sell the day's catch, then climb back to the plateau beneath century-old trees.
Dressed-stone buildings, recent blocks, gated developments and a few villas with gardens. Floor areas are markedly more generous than in the historic core or Petit Bayonne — the sector's main argument for a family.
The planted boulevard along the Adour and its fishing huts give the quarter a breathing space the centre lacks. The trees are a century old, the alignment protected in practice by its age. An outlook that will not close.
The pedestrian shopping centre is minutes away, without the parking constraint of the old core. Primary schools, a collège, a lycée and the hospital sit within the perimeter. This is the quarter that best combines centrality and family life.
Schools on foot, the Adour banks for a Sunday run, the fishery for the morning's catch and the pedestrian centre ten minutes away. This is where people settle for the long term.
The bullring occupies the Maledaille plateau, about a kilometre from the centre, overlooking the Adour flood meadows. Below, the allées Marines run along the river downstream of the confluence with the Nive; the fishing huts stand there. The quarter once housed several of Bayonne's chocolate makers. To the east, Grand Bayonne is reached on foot. We measure here in level change and outlook: between the plateau and the banks, the light and the view are not the same, and no plan shows it.
You walk down for the morning's fish at the quayside fishery, then climb back to the plateau beneath century-old trees.
Precise location, orientation, volume, garden, timing. The gap between two addresses often lies in what no listing mentions.
We draw on our network of owners, notaires and introducers. A significant share of transactions here is settled without ever being advertised.
We visit, check true orientation, structural condition, easements and extension potential. You travel only for what deserves it.
Through to completion. And if you are selling, we build the valuation on your property's own characteristics — never on a neighbourhood average.
Because no prestige property comes down to an average. Two neighbouring houses on plots of identical size are not worth the same if one faces south and the other sits in shade. We assess exact location, orientation, plot, features and scarcity — a bespoke valuation, never a price grid.
It gives the district its identity and a handful of major events across the year that Bayonne looks forward to. The rest of the time it is a calm residential sector, with its century-old trees and stone buildings.
Yes, but supply is limited and concerns mainly high-specification properties. They rarely reach the open market: precisely the kind of transaction where our local network is decisive.
Markedly more spacious homes than the historic core, dressed-stone buildings, century-old trees — and the pedestrian centre a few minutes away on foot. Few districts combine space and centrality.
Agreed in advance and transparent. For a search mandate they fall due only on acquisition. The detail is set out at our first meeting.
One call is enough to frame your project in Arènes or Allées Marines, whether buying or selling. We reply personally within 48 hours, in complete confidence.
07 86 71 33 13The Arènes quarter is one of the addresses we work in. We cover many others across the Pays Basque, and we hold a certain idea of what this profession should be, better told elsewhere than on this page.
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