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French Basque Coast Tourism Travel Guide
Bayonne - Bayonne is the leading port/pleasure-yacht basin of the Basque Coast, divided by the Nive and Adour rivers; it's a cathedral city and capital of the Pays Basque, characterized by narrow streets, quays, and ramparts. Enlivening the scene are bullfights, pelote (Jai Alai), and street dancing at ...
Biarritz - Biarritz is a large town with several quartiers and is one of the principal resorts on the Basque Coast, and probably the most famous part of the Pays Basque. Biarritz came to fame in the mid 19th Century, when Empress Eugenie (the wife of Napoleon III) fell in love with this part of the Basque ...
Saint Jean de Luz - A beautiful seaside resort and active fishing port not far from the Spanish border, Saint Jean de Luz is a lively and cosmopolitan town. The town center of St Jean de Luz has a medieval background, with no doubt, a great deal of influence in the past from Spain and the Moors, and with this ...
Anglet - Anglet is a large commercial town, with two coastal quartiers "Chiberta and Chambre d'Amour", both with long expanses of sandy surfing beaches which are part of the Basque Coast. Anglet centre (located between the two large towns of Biarritz 5kms South and Bayonne 3kms North, with all ...
Hendaye - Hendaye is the furthest point in the South West of France you can go, a frontier town with Spain and confined on the edge of both the Atlantic Ocean and Pyrenees Mountains. Hendaye is a sprawled town, split into 2 main areas and separated by 2 kms. The old medieval Basque Town is situated on a hill ...
Ciboure - Ciboure (Ziburu in Basque) is Saint Jean de Luz quiet "alter ego". Many typical whitewashed Basque houses, timber-framed and shuttered in oxblood-red or green, survive just south of rue ...
Urrugne - At the gateway to Spain, 20 km from Biarritz, between Saint Jean de Luz and Hendaye, close to Ciboure, Ascain, Sare and Biriatou. Urrugne, a charming village in the Basque province of Labourd, has the distinctive feature of being located between the coast with unspoilt high cliffs, overlooking ...