BASQUE COUNTRY HOLIDAY REVIEWS
Basque Country
The three provinces that make up the south-west of France, abutting Spain, are home to the proud and unique Basque people who jealously guard their own language and culture. A holiday in Basque Country gives a fascinating insight to this traditional life, centred on the area capital of Bayonne. The scenic mountainous area is idealmore
The three provinces that make up the south-west of France, abutting Spain, are home to the proud and unique Basque people who jealously guard their own language and culture. A holiday in Basque Country gives a fascinating insight to this traditional life, centred on the area capital of Bayonne. The scenic mountainous area is idealmore
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Raphael Rambeau. Date of travel: Jul 2004
I would like to congratulate you for your website, which has helped me on several occasions in my business travels around the globe. I was reading for the first time the pages related to my home country -France- today and would like to share with you a couple of comments related to the Basque Country section. Lourdes, and the Haute-Pyrenées area, do not belong to the Basque Country itself. The Lourdes area is named Bigorre and its population used to speak "Occitan" with some local variations. This language is latin-based and related to Gascon, Provencal and Catalan regional languages. As you mention, the city of Pau is the main settlement of an area called "Béarn", also speaking a local variation of "Occitan". Although these local languages are not widely spoken today, being wiped out by 50 years of television and French schools, they are not related to Euskara, or Basque language at all. I am not sure my relatives living in the area would appreciate being compared to Basque people ! (Friendly) rivalry between Bayonne and Pau or more generally between the Basque and the Bearn areas of the Pyrenees-Atlantiques "département" exists for hundreds of years.
I would like to congratulate you for your website, which has helped me on several occasions in my business travels around the globe. I was reading for the first time the pages related to my home country -France- today and would like to share with you a couple of comments related to the Basque Country section. Lourdes, and the Haute-Pyrenées area, do not belong to the Basque Country itself. The Lourdes area is named Bigorre and its population used to speak "Occitan" with some local variations. This language is latin-based and related to Gascon, Provencal and Catalan regional languages. As you mention, the city of Pau is the main settlement of an area called "Béarn", also speaking a local variation of "Occitan". Although these local languages are not widely spoken today, being wiped out by 50 years of television and French schools, they are not related to Euskara, or Basque language at all. I am not sure my relatives living in the area would appreciate being compared to Basque people ! (Friendly) rivalry between Bayonne and Pau or more generally between the Basque and the Bearn areas of the Pyrenees-Atlantiques "département" exists for hundreds of years.
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| Hotels in Basque Country | User Rating |
| 4-Star Hotels |
| Gallia Et Londres | | * * * * * | |
| Grand De La Grotte | | * * * * * | |
| Hotel Grand Hotel De La Grotte | | * * * * * | |
| Mercure Imperial | | * * * * * | |
| Mercure Lourdes Imperial | | * * * * * | |
| Radisson Sas | | * * * * * | |
| Tonic | | * * * * * | |
| Vesuvio | | * * * * * | |
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| 3-Star Hotels |
| Altess | | * * * * * | |
| America Hotel Lourdes | | * * * * * | |
| Arcades | | * * * * * | |
| Ariane | | * * * * * | |
| Astoria Vatican | | * * * * * | |
| Christina | | * * * * * | |
| Comfort Gloria | | * * * * * | |
| Comfort Gloria (Superior) | | * * * * * | |
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| 2-Star Hotels |
| Amarys | | * * * * * | |
| Centre Biarritz | | * * * * * | |
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| Other Hotels |
| Le Grand Large | | * * * * * | |
| Mountainbug | | * * * * * | |