The coast's last fishing port still in activity
The famous mountain "la Rhune"
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The coast's last fishing port still in activity |
The famous mountain "la Rhune" |
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| Saint Jean de luz is a tourist town renowned above all for its welcome, its festivities and friendly locals. You will discover a certain art of living. |
| With it's first populations dating back to prehistoric times, St Jean de Luz has always held a historic role particularly in relation to the sea, with it's whale and tuna fishermen, it's pirates and adventurers that battled the seas, its sailors, discoverers of 'terra incognita'. In 1660 King Louis XIV held his wedding here. |
| Intimate and preserved, it was and remains a town for artists like Maurice Ravel, Ramiro, Arue, Victor Hugo, Francis James, Pierre Loti, Pierre Benoit. |
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A privileged location 780 Km from Paris 200 from Bordeaux, 300 fromToulouse 500 Km fromMadrid 120 Km from Bilbao and 600 Km from Barcelone |
| Located right on the Spanish border, St Jean de Luz is the ideal departure point for a discovery of the Basque country, mythical land of legends and of a people with a mysterious tongue that has managed to preserve it's exceptional art of living. | |
