Biarritz Chocolate & Bayonne
Avenue de Biarritz, Bidart, 64200, France
The Basque Country has been making chocolate since the 17th century — Sephardic Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition brought cacao preparation techniques to Bayonne (10km from Biarritz), making it the first place in France to produce chocolate.
Fronton Parc Mazon
Avenue du Maréchal Joffre, Biarritz, 64200, France
The ball travels at three hundred kilometres per hour.
La Rhune (Mountain Railway)
3170 Santinazioko Errebidea, Sare, 64310, France
La Rhune is the sacred mountain of the Basque Country — a 905-metre peak on the French-Spanish border that has been a place of pilgrimage and mythology since pre-Christian times.
Les Halles de Biarritz
Rue des Halles, 64200 Biarritz
This market was built on a tennis court.
Pelote Basque (Basque Ball Games)
Porte de Biarritz, Biarritz, 64200, France
Pelote basque is the Basque national sport — a family of ball games played against a wall (fronton) that has been the social and competitive centrepiece of Basque culture for centuries.
Surf Culture & Côte des Basques
Biarritz, 64200, France
Biarritz is the birthplace of European surfing — the Côte des Basques beach is where American screenwriter Peter Viertel first surfed in France in 1957, introducing a sport that transformed this fading aristocratic resort into the surf capital of Europe.
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