The Hotel Bristol Pau takes you on a tour of its city, which has been awarded the "active and sporty city" label. Among the candidates, 400 cities participated to win the label, 200 cities were awarded and only 6 deserved the highest distinction, including Pau.

Sport represents the identity and pride of a whole region. The Pau Bearn Pyrenees agglomeration supports high-level sport through the support of major clubs and major events on an international scale. This helps to create social links around attractions.

Pau, a sporting capital, draws its wealth from a multitude of omnisport champions such as Tony Estanguet, triple Olympic champion and one of the most eminent flag bearers, as well as his older brother Patrice, who contributed to the creation of the white water park in 2008.

The city of Pau has the oldest continental golf course.

Grand prix automobile de Pau - May 2022

The Hotel Bristol presents a unique event taking place in the city of Pau that is not to be missed, the Automobile Grand Prix.

It's an opportunity to admire all the new automotive technologies, with demonstrations. The aim of the event is to showcase the new energies used to drive these super-powered cars.

On the programme, the first round of the first FIA ETCR Electric Touring World Cup, the first round of the famous FIA WTCR Touring World Cup, the single-seaters of the Euroformula Open, the FFSA F4 French Championship...

Watch drivers from all over the world compete to cross the finish line on a circuit located just 10 minutes from the Hotel Bristol Pau on 6, 7 and 8 May 2022 to discover the new technologies found in modern cars.

During the same month, on the weekend of 21 May, take a trip back in time with the car race involving old cars.

Discover the Pau racecourse

Pau's racecourse and golf course are very old and were the first on the continent. They were built by the English when Pau was still an English resort town (late 19th, early 20th century) before Biarritz.

After a year spent behind closed doors due to the pandemic, the Hotel Bristol Pau presents the city's racecourse, which can at last welcome back its public.

Spread over an area of 40 hectares, with 110 boxes, 12 stalls and home to some 15 trainers with around 1000 horses, this visit will blow you away.

Located 15 minutes by car from the Hotel Bristol, it is easily accessible. Built on the Pont-Long area, the Pau racecourse is a jewel in the crown of Pau's facilities. It is rightly considered by horse professionals as the second racecourse in France after Auteuil.

The Pont-Long site offers a variety of courses including indoor and outdoor hurdle and steeplechase tracks, steeplechase figure-eight tracks and a cross-country course.

Enough of following your favourite jockeys on television, come and meet them and bet on their performances during the winter meeting with the presence of several races called "PMU". This award has given the town a national reputation, with all the betting in France concentrated in Pau.

The famous white water stadium of Pau Béarn Pyrénées

If you're a thrill-seeker, Hôtel Bristol Pau invites you to take part in an adventure at the Base d'Eaux Vives du Pont d'Espagne, one of the region's most emblematic venues. Located in the heart of the Rives du Gave Urban Nature Park, the stadium was the venue for slalom world cup events in 2009, 2012, 2016 and 2020.

This park is an artificial whitewater stadium inaugurated in 2009, located in Bizanos, a town near Pau. It is the training center for the French national slalom canoeing team. It was the first of three venues used for the 2009 Canoe Slalom World Cup. It is also a recreational water park for the general public.

The site features a 300 m long, 15 m wide course with a 2% gradient, a 7500 m start/finish pool, 2000-seat amphitheater seating and a conveyor belt to return to the start.