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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.
 
Pyrenees Atlantiques is a combination of beautiful landscapes, a deeply rooted and vivacious culture, a history it can be proud of as well as flavoursome gastronomy. Read more » | |
| |  | Beyond Baigorri, traveling along the Nive by road or train, you enter Labourd (Lapurdi), the westernmost of the three traditional French Basque regions which are now gathered into the department of ... | |
| |  | Bayonne is the leading port/pleasure-yacht basin of the Côte Basque (Basque Coast), divided by the Nive and Adour rivers; it's a cathedral city and capital of the Pays Basque (Basque Country), characterized by ... | |
| |  | Saint Jean Pied de Port is the last stop before the tortuous mountain pass of Roncevaux (Roncesvalles) on the pilgrimage to the tomb of St. James in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Pilgrims have been making the ... | |
| |  | From humble beginnings as a crossing on the Gave de Pau for flocks en route to and from the mountains, Pau became the capital of the viscountcy of Bearn in 1464, and of the French part of the kingdom of Navarre in 1512 ... | |
| |  | The valley of the Nive river is the only public-transport artery southeast into the Basque interior, with four or five trains a day making the riverside ... | |
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