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The Best Attractions In Basque Country

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The French Basque Country, or Northern Basque Country is a region lying on the west of the French department of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Since 1 January 2017, it constitutes the Basque Municipal Community presided over by Jean-René Etchegaray.It includes three former historic French provinces in the north-east of the traditional Basque Country totalling 2,869 km²: Lower Navarre , until 1789 nominally Kingdom of Navarre, with 1,284 km²; Labourd , with 800 km²; Soule , with 785 km². The population included in the Basque Municipal Community amounts to 295,970 inhabitants distributed in 158 municipalities.It is delimited in the north by the departm...
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The Best Attractions In Basque Country

  • 2. Aquarium de Biarritz Biarritz
    This is a list of aquaria . For dolphinariums, see List of dolphinariums. For zoos, see List of zoos. For a list of defunct zoos and aquariums, see List of former zoos and aquariums. Aquariums are facilities where animals are confined within tanks and displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred. Such facilities include public aquariums, oceanariums, marine mammal parks, and dolphinariums. According to Vancouver Aquarium there are over 200 aquaria worldwide.
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  • 3. Hendaye Beach Hendaye
    Hendaye is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department and Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France. The town, France's most southwesterly and a popular seaside tourist resort, stands on the right bank of the River Bidassoa – which marks the Franco-Spanish border – at the point where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean in the French Basque Country. Hendaye has three distinguishable parts: la ville , which stretches from Saint Vincent's church to the area around the SNCF railway station and the industrial zone; la plage , the seaside quarter; and les hauteurs , the villas and camping sites on the hills between and behind the other two areas.
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  • 4. Chateau d'Abbadie Hendaye
    The Château d'Abbadia, also Château d'Abbadie, is a château in Hendaye, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. Built between 1864 and 1879, it was designed in the neo-Gothic style by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and incorporated many enigmatic features characteristic of its owner, the explorer Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, after whom it is named.
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  • 5. Cathedrale Sainte-Marie de Bayonne Bayonne
    The Cathedral of Saint Mary of Bayonne or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Bayonne , commonly known as Bayonne Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic church in the town of Bayonne, France. It is the seat of the former Bishops of Bayonne, now the Bishops of Bayonne, Lescar, and Oloron. The cathedral is in the Gothic architectural tradition. The site was previously occupied by a Romanesque cathedral that was destroyed by two fires in 1258 and 1310. Construction of the present cathedral began in the 13th century and was completed at the beginning of the 17th, except for the two spires which were not finished until the 19th century. The structure has been much restored and refurbished, notably by Émile Boeswildwald, architect to the French government in the 19th century, and a pupil of Eugène Viollet-le...
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  • 6. Biarritz Lighthouse Biarritz
    Biarritz is a city on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the French Basque Country in Southwestern France. It is located 35 kilometres from the border with Spain. It is a luxurious seaside tourist destination known for the Hôtel du Palais , its casinos in front of the sea and its surfing culture.
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  • 7. La Cote des Basques Biarritz
    Biarritz is a city on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the French Basque Country in Southwestern France. It is located 35 kilometres from the border with Spain. It is a luxurious seaside tourist destination known for the Hôtel du Palais , its casinos in front of the sea and its surfing culture.
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  • 9. La Grande Plage Biarritz
    Biarritz is a city on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the French Basque Country in Southwestern France. It is located 35 kilometres from the border with Spain. It is a luxurious seaside tourist destination known for the Hôtel du Palais , its casinos in front of the sea and its surfing culture.
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