Pyrenees Guide

The Pyrenees Atlantiques offers the Pays Basque and the Bearn. The ancient divisions of Labourd, Basse Navarre and Soule, with a population of around 250.000, make up the French Basque Country (Pays Basque). In 1970, despite local attempts to get departmental status for the Basque Country, the departement was renamed Pyrenees Atlantiques.

The Pyrenees Atlantiques are a combination of beautiful landscapes, a deeply rooted and vivacious culture, a history it can be proud of as well as flavoursome gastronomy.   

Destinations in Pyrenees Atlantiques - Labourd Labourd (Lapurdi in Basque; from Latin Lapurdum, Labord in Gascon) is a former French province and part of the present-day Pyrenees Atlantiques departement. It is historically one of the seven provinces of the traditional Basque Country. Labourd extends from the Pyrenees to the ...