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32 Basque 1 Bayonne
Surrounded by sturdy
fortifications and
Country
splashed in red and white
paint, Bayonne is one of
the most attractive towns
Driving into the village of Espelette you’ll be in southwest France. Its
perfectly preserved old
struck by how different everything is from town and riverside res-
other parts of the country. The houses are taurants are an absolute
all tarted up in the red and white of Basque delight to explore, but
the town is best known
buildings, streamers of chilli peppers hang from to French people for
roof beams, and from open windows comes a producing some of the
nation’s finest chocolate
language you don’t recognise. As you’ll discover and ham.
Inside the Musée
on this tour, being different from the rest of Basque et de l’Histoire de
France is exactly how the proud Basques like it. Bayonne (%05 59 59 08 98;

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Cité de
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Biscay l’Océan # \ La Negresse
0 ¸ Arcangues / ·
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D810
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Guéthary # Bidart 0 ¸
4
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/ · # \ Ahetze D932
A63
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St-Jean de Luz# # \ Ustaritz
5
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D918
San sur-Nivelle
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Sebastián / · # \ Ascain Col de Espelette
A63
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Itxassou
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La Rhune # \ Dantxarinea Nive
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