Resort on the Silver Coast, Messanges is a small village of Nova Aquitaine located in the Landes department. In the heart of the Landes forest, it takes place not far from Dax, on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean.
Village older, Messanges was in the Middle Ages a well-known stage of pilgrims on the way to Saint Jacques de Compostela. Stronghold of the Knights Templar, at the same time, the town is experiencing a population growth between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, dividing into two parts with rural and maritime activities. At the end of that time, the diversion of the Adour causes the decline Messanges, including economically. With the arrival of the railways in the nineteenth century the village was principally directed at the seaside tourism.
Today Messanges is known for its supervised beaches and for the production of "sands wine", popular with food lovers. The latter is derived from several grape varieties, Cabernet, "tite rears" and Cruchen, a grape exported to South Africa in the nineteenth century to produce Riesling.