Pyrenees Guide

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.   

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 river Adour, ...

French Basque Coast - French Basque Coast Tourism Travel ...

Saint Jean Pied de Port - Saint Jean Pied de Port is the last stop before the mountain pass of Roncevaux (Roncesvalles) on the pilgrimage to the tomb of Saint James in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Pilgrims have been making the trek ever since the 10th Century, their routes intersecting in this medieval village surrounded ...

Pau and Around - From humble beginnings as a crossing on the Gave de Pau ("Gave" roughly translates as valley) for flocks en route to and from the mountains, Pau became the capital of the ancient viscountcy of Béarn in 1464, and of the French part of the kingdom of Navarre in 1512. In 1567 its ...

Nive Valley - The Nive Valley is the only public-transport artery southeast into the Basque interior, with four or five trains a day making the riverside journey from Bayonne to St-Jean-Pied-de-Port in about an hour. The luminous green landscape on the approach to the mountains is scattered with ...

Haute Soule - Haute Soule Travel ...

Baigorri - In and around Baigorri (Saint Etienne de Baigorry) and within the valley of the source of the Nive. Like pilgrims of the Way of Saint James, we invite you to trek the highlands, lowlands, the wine lands of Irouleguy and the sylvan splendour of the forests of Iraty and Hayra, in the hope of finding ...