Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Pyrénées-Atlantiques is in Nouvelle-Aquitaine at the southwest corner of France on the border with Spain. It includes the French Basque Country and the traditional province of Béarn. The Pyrenees mountain range crosses the department from east to west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Pau and Bayonne.
Pau
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Pau is a commune overlooking the Pyrenees, the prefecture of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France.
Bayonne
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Bayonne is a town in Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the southwest corner of France, part of the Basque region straddling the border with Spain. It's part of the triple township of BAB, Biarritz-Anglet-Bayonne, which in 2021 had a population of 309,392, and as a tourist destination it's been overshadowed by the more famous Biarritz.
Biarritz
Biarritz is a large beachside town on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, in south-west France.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Saint-Jean-de-Luz and Hendaye.
Saint-Jean-de-Luz
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Saint-Jean-de-Luz & Ciboure are small towns at the mouth of the River Nivelle, near the border with Spain. St Jean, the larger, is east of the river and straight in front of the railway station, while Ciboure is a village some 500 m west across the river bridge - for practical purposes they're a single community.
Hendaye
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Hendaye is the furthest point in the South West of France you can go, a frontier town with Hondarribia, Spain and confined on the edge of both the Atlantic Ocean and Pyrenees Mountains.
Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port
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Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port is a town of 1,500 people in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. It is a common starting point for the French Way of the pilgrim route Camino de Santiago, to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia.
Bidart
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Bidart is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in southwestern France. It is located in the traditional Basque province of Labourd.
Ostabat-Asme
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Ostabat-Asme, Hostavalem in the Middle Ages, is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in south-western France. It was the meeting point of 4 European ways to Santiago de Compostela, 3 of them joining together there, namely Paris - Tours - Poitiers…
La Bastide-Clairence
La Bastide-Clairence is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as Bastidots or Bastidotes.
Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Type: department of France with 680,000 residents
- Description: French departement in New Aquitaine (formerly Aquitaine)
- Also known as: “Atlantic Pyrenees”, “Basses-Pyrénées”, “Bosse-Atlantiques”, “Département des Pyrénées-Atlantiques”, and “Lower Pyrenees”
- Neighbors: Gers, Hautes-Pyrénées, and Landes
- Location: Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Pyrénées-Atlantiques” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Albanian: “Pirenejtë Atlantikë”
- Albanian: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Arabic: “البرانس الأطلسية”
- Arabic: “البرانيس الأطلسية (إقليم فرنسي)”
- Aragonese: “Pireneus Atlanticos”
- Armenian: “Ատլանտյան Պիրենեյներ”
- Arpitan: “Pirènês-Atlanticos”
- Asturian: “Pirineos Atlánticos”
- Asturian: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Azerbaijani: “Atlantik Pireney”
- Basque: “Basses-Pyrénées”
- Basque: “Pirinio Atlantikoak”
- Basque: “Pirinio-Atlantiarrak”
- Belarusian: “Атлантычныя Пірэнеі”
- Belarusian: “Атлянтычныя Пірэнэі”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Атлантычныя Пірэнеі”
- Belarusian: “Ніжнія Пірэнеі”
- Belarusian: “Пірэнеі Атлантычныя”
- Bengali: “পিরেনিস-আটলান্টিস”
- Breton: “Pireneoù-Atlantel”
- Bulgarian: “Пирене Атлантик”
- Catalan: “Pirineus Atlàntics”
- Cebuano: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Chechen: “Атлантикин ПигӀенейш”
- Chechen: “Атлантикин Пиреней”
- Chinese: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Chinese: “下比利牛斯省”
- Chinese: “大西洋岸比利牛斯省”
- Chinese: “大西洋比利牛斯省”
- Chinese: “比利牛斯－大西洋”
- Chuvash: “Атлантика енчи Пиреней”
- Corsican: “Pirenei Atlantichi”
- Croatian: “Atlantski Pireneji”
- Czech: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Dagbani: “Pireneus Atlanticos”
- Danish: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Dutch: “Pyrenees-Atlantiques”
- Dutch: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Esperanto: “Pireneoj-Atlantikaj”
- Esperanto: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Estonian: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Estonian: “Pyrénées-Atlantiquesi departemang”
- Finnish: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- French: “Basses-Pyrénées”
- French: “Département des Basses-Pyrénées”
- French: “Pyrenees-Atlantiques”
- French: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Galician: “Pireneos Atlánticos”
- Georgian: “ატლანტური პირენეები”
- German: “Département Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- German: “Pyrenäen-Atlanti”
- German: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Greek: “Ατλαντικά Πυρηναία”
- Greek: “Κάτω Πυρηναία”
- Gujarati: “પીરેનેસ-એટલાન્ટીક”
- Hakka Chinese: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques-sén”
- Hebrew: “הפירנאים האטלנטיים”
- Hindi: “पायरेनीज़-अटलांटिकेस”
- Hungarian: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Indonesian: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Interlingua: “Departimento Pyrenees-Atlantiques”
- Irish: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Italian: “Pirenei atlantici”
- Italian: “Pirenei Atlantici”
- Japanese: “ピレネー＝アトランティック県”
- Kannada: “ಪೈರಿನೀಸ್-ಅಟ್ಲಾಂಟಿಕ್ಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Атлантикалық Пиреней”
- Kongo: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Korean: “피레네자틀랑티크주”
- Ladin: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Ladino: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Latin: “Pyrenaei Atlantici”
- Latin: “Pyrenaeus Atlanticus”
- Latvian: “Atlantijas Pireneji”
- Limburgan: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Lithuanian: “Atlanto Pirėnai”
- Lombard: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Low German: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Luxembourgish: “Departement Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Macedonian: “Атлантски Пиринеи”
- Malagasy: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Malay: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Marathi: “पिरेने-अतलांतिक”
- Mazanderani: “پیرنه-آتلانتیک”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Northern Frisian: “Département Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Northern Sami: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Norwegian: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pirenèus Atlantics”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pirenèus-Atlantics”
- Ossetian: “Атлантикон Пиренейтæ”
- Pampanga: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Persian: “پیرنه-آتلانتیک”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment dij Pirené Atlàntich”
- Polish: “Pireneje Atlantyckie”
- Portuguese: “Pirenéus Atlânticos”
- Portuguese: “Pirineus Atlânticos”
- Romanian: “departamentul Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Romanian: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Russian: “Атлантические Пиренеи”
- Scots: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Serbian: “Атлантски Пиринеји”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Sinhala: “පිරෙනීස් අට්ලාන්ටික්ස්”
- Slovak: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Slovenian: “Atlantski Pireneji”
- Slovenian: “Basses-Pyrénées”
- Slovenian: “Nizki Pireneji”
- Slovenian: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Spanish: “Pirineos Atlanticos”
- Spanish: “Pirineos Atlánticos”
- Swahili: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Swedish: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Пиренеи Атлантикӣ”
- Tamil: “பெயரெனீஸ் -அட்லான்டியூஸ்”
- Telugu: “పైరెనీస్-అట్లాంటిక్స్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดปีเรเน-อัตล็องติก”
- Tosk Albanian: “Département Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Turkish: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Ukrainian: “Атлантичні Піренеї”
- Urdu: “پیرینے-اتلانتیک”
- Venetian: “Dipartimento dei Pirenei Atlantici”
- Venetian: “Pirenei Atlànteghi”
- Vietnamese: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Vlaams: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Welsh: “Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع پیرینیز اٹلانٹک”
- Wu Chinese: “大西洋比利牛斯省”
- Wu Chinese: “比利牛斯-大西洋省”
- Yue Chinese: “大西洋比利牛斯省”
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