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. The Petit Train de la Rhune, a rack railway built in 1924, climbs from the Col de Saint-Ignace to the summit in 35 minutes through a landscape of wild Pottok ponies, Manech sheep, and the heather-and-gorse moorland that covers the Basque Pyrenean foothills. The summit views extend from the Bay of Biscay to the high Pyrenees.
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La Rhune reaches 905 metres on the French-Spanish border
The Petit Train rack railway was built in 1924
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3170 Santinazioko Errebidea, Sare, 64310, France
