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The activities of Velo Passion Pays Basque proceed on the whole of the Basque Country. The coast extends from Bayonne to Bilbao and offers many assets:
- Splendid beaches which make the happiness of the surfers who come from the whole world to test the various waves and spots of the coast but also the happiness of being in love with nature by visible association sea-mountain all along the coast.
- Sumptuous seaside resorts among which the most famous Biarritz, Saint Jean de Luz and Saint-Sébastien within less than 50km of each other, but also many small coastal villages which have known to keep their authenticity such as Bidart, Guéthary, Fontarrabie.
- Sumptuous mountains and accessible to all! if the tops of the Basque mountains are not very high that does not remove anything with the charm various landscapes that they propose to us: the Rhûne mountain with the panoramic view it offers on the coast or the forest of Iraty (the largest forest of leafy trees of Western Europe) one reaches by the famous cols of Burdinkurutxeta and Bagarguy.
- Typical villages with their churches with galleries, their half-timbered houses and the fronton where games of pelote are played. The best known are: Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, Ainhoa, Sare, Vera de Bidasoa, Etxalar, Lesaka...
- A two nation culture, the Basque Country countains 3 French provinces and 4 Spanish provinces which confers a strong and atypical identity to it that can be found in its mysterious language, in its various and traditional sports (Pelotd, Basque force, rowing...) and cultural leisures (choirs, singers, bertsularis...).
- A rich and varied gastronomy! with famous Bayonne ham, the pepper of espelette, chocolates (Bayonne is the first city having received and having worked the Cocoa in France), pastry makings (Basque cake, maccarons of Saint-Jean-of-Luz...), pork-butchery, fish cooked with Spanish, wines of irouléguy... et of many typical dishes (Piperade, Axoa, Merlu will koskera, Marmitako...).
