Department guide
Pyrénées-Atlantiques
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Ideas to get you started
Available guides: 2
Ideas to get you started
A selection of city guides to help you choose your base.
Bayonne
Bayonne is at the confluence of the Nive and Adour, where the Landes meet the French Basque Country in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Its sheltered port made the city prosperous and strategically important…
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Pau
Pau is the prefecture of Pyrénées-Atlantiques and the former capital of Béarn. Around 50 kilometres from Spain, the city has a built heritage shaped by its political past and by the mountain landscape…
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Places to visit in Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Pyrénées-Atlantiques is listed under Aquitaine in the Where to Go directory. This department page leads to two city entries: Bayonne and Pau. Each link opens a separate destination guide, while the department index keeps those city pages together in one place.
Browse the city guides
Choose Bayonne or Pau according to the destination you want to explore. Keeping the entries at city level avoids mixing local material into a general department page and makes either guide easy to reach from the Aquitaine hierarchy.
Using this page
The index covers the city guides included in this directory, rather than attempting to catalogue every destination in Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Return here to switch between Bayonne and Pau, or step back to the Aquitaine page to browse another department. Both links remain within the English travel section.
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