Monday 29 January 2024

THE BEST VILLAGE YOU CAN SEE IN A BASK COUNTRY

The route of the most beautiful villages of the Basque Country:

Let's discover the most picturesque villages of the country less than fifty kilometers from our base in Bidart.

We start from the largest privateer city in the country: Bayonne! With its historic city center clinging to the banks of the L’Adour and the Nive, let's leave its cobbled streets and its cathedral and take the road to the peaks and go to Itxassou via the lower Cambo. Once discovered its pediment, continue along the railway line to Pas de Roland then fork to the right of the valley and go to Espelette via the Légarré pass, in order to visit its pedestrian center and discover its famous peppers. The rest of the trip goes through the Pinodieta pass and its pretty bends, we finally arrive in Ainhoa, a magnificent village, where it is good to stroll along its main street.

Let's get back to our machines, cross the border at Dantxaria, which does not fit into our selection of the most beautiful villages, but nevertheless has the privilege of giving us the benefit of its many “Venta”, stores at advantageous prices and petrol pumps at discount prices, let's extend it to Zugaramundi and its many witch legends, an ideal village for a hydration break!

Let's take the handlebars and go to Sare, and its superb square and its pediment, all overcome by the Rhune, which we will cross via the Saint Ignace pass, we leave its little cogwheel train on our left and we dive to 'in the village of Ascain, another typical village where a certain “Jo” would have lived in the seventies… but these are “have said”.

It's time to get back to the base through the countryside around Saint Pée sur Nivelle, a last stop by the astonishing village of Arcangues and its magnificent cemetery which attracts whole Buses of tourists throughout the year. , indeed, one dominates there all the surrounding countryside until the sea! A certain Luis Mariano would also be there for a few things ...

This is what you can discover within gas range of our Depot on a good day! Do not hesitate to let yourself be guided by us! We'll take care that you don't miss a thing!