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Saint Jean de Luz
Overview: A popular seaside resort and active fishing port just above the Spanish border, Saint Jean de Luz is a lively and cosmopolitan town. The lovely medieval town centre has been influenced by Spain and the Moors and has a mix of architecture among the narrow streets. Around the main square are some of the best seafood restaurants in the region, as well as other bars and terraces from which to see and enjoy the regular musical events in the square - including a Basque Choir every Sunday morning (summer months only). The newer, more commercial end of town is littered with chic shops and boutiques and a casino.
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Walking in the Pyrénées: The wild mountains of the Pyrénées stretch for 250
miles (402km) from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and have for
many centuries formed a natural frontier: physical, climatic and
linguistic, between France and Spain. Second only to the Alps among
the great mountain ranges of Western Europe, the
Pyrénées are much less frequented, and still offer an
exciting combination of knife-edged summits, small glaciers,
forested valleys, mountain tarns and little-trodden summer passes.
Splendid trails lead to the magnificent cirques and lake-spangled
basins of France's Pyrénées National Park. Over on
the Spanish side paths lead through the spectacular canyons of the
Ordesa-Monte Perdido National Park, one of Europe's oldest. In
1997, the United Nations inscribed a portion of the French and
Spanish Pyrénées near the French village of Gavarnie
and the Spanish village of Torla on its list of World Heritage
Sites. Here, nature over the eons has carved three stupendous
glacial cirques including the renowned Cirque de Gavarnie and a
3,000ft (914m) deep canyon called Ordesa - Spain's 'Grand
Canyon.'
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