The Basque Country, Gascony, and Hautes-Pyrénées Features

The Basque Country, Gascony, and Hautes-Pyrénées Features

• Top Reasons to Go
  

  Biarritz, Big Sur à la Mode: Today Biarritz is Europe's surf capital, a far cry from its start as the favorite watering place of Empress... read more

• Getting On Top of Things
  

  Supping on the hearty regional cuisine makes perfect sense after a day of hiking the Pyrénées, which are best explored on foot... read more

• Le Surfing
  

  The area around Biarritz has become Europe's hot-cool surfing center. The season kicks off big-time every summer with the Roxy Jam longboard... read more

• Gonzo Over Games: Basque Sports
  

  If you are gonzo over games, you've come to the right place. Perhaps the best-known and most spectacular of Basque sports is the ancestral ball... read more