Saint-Jean-de-Luz is the prettiest fishing port on the Basque coast — a sheltered bay town 20 minutes south of Biarritz where Louis XIV married Maria Theresa of Spain in 1660 (the wedding church, Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, has the finest Basque church interior on the French side) and where the working tuna fishing fleet still lands its catch at the harbour. The town's main street (Rue Gambetta) is a corridor of Basque linen shops, espadrille makers, and the Maison Adam patisserie that made the macarons for the royal wedding and has been baking them ever since.
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Louis XIV married Maria Theresa in Saint-Jean-de-Luz in 1660
Maison Adam has been making macarons since the 1660 royal wedding
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