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Nova Aquitânia · France
In the destination French Basque Country.
In the photo: Town hall and square in the centre of Cambo‑les‑Bains.
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
Thermal town in the interior of the French Basque Country, on the banks of the Nive River, divided between Upper Cambo, with the church of Saint Lawrence, and Lower Cambo, beside the river. There the writer Edmond Rostand built Villa Arnaga, now a museum. Nearby are the Nive gorge and the Roland’s Pass, in Itxassou. It is the town of the gâteau basque.
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The local experience
House built from 1903 by writer Edmond Rostand, author of Cyrano de Bergerac, in the style of Basque houses, with French and English gardens. It is a museum, a listed historic monument and a Remarkable Garden.
Basque church in Upper Cambo, with a single nave, three tiers of wooden galleries and a 17th‑century gilded altarpiece depicting the martyrdom of Saint Lawrence. The adjoining cemetery has Basque steles and views over the Nive valley.
A rock with an opening at the edge of the Nive River, in the gorge between Cambo-les-Bains and Itxassou. According to legend, it was opened by the knight Roland, nephew of Charlemagne, with his sword or with his horse’s hoof.
