Biarritz - Pays basque

12/06/2026

When the summer solstice arrives, we celebrate properly! 🔥
The “Fêtes de Saint-Jean” mark the beginning of the big summer celebrations on the basque coast each year. Street parades, music, street entertainment… and Saint-Jean traditions linked to the summer solstice! The Saint-Jean bonfire remains the most anticipated moment, bringing together locals and visitors in a simple and warm atmosphere. ❤️
It's ancient ritual meets modern celebration: the whole town gathered around fire, music, and that unmistakable “summer-is-here” energy!
June 18-22, mark it. This is how the Basque Country kicks off summer!

📸 Pierre-Alex

04/06/2026

Tiny village, but big cherry energy! 🍒😎

Early June, the village of Itxassou honours one of its most famous products: the black cherry. This friendly day brings together producers, locals and visitors around a gourmet market, entertainment and Basque specialities.

The cherries? Dark, sweet, absolute perfection! The gâteau basque filled with them? Even better. 🤤

This is peak Basque terroir: small-scale farming, proper local produce, zero pretension. Just good people celebrating good fruit in a gorgeous village!

📸 F. Perrot / Bonnat / Pierre-Alex / Kindabreak

29/05/2026

Sunset at 9:45pm. Dinner that lasts until dark. In one word: heaven! 🧡

June brings the longest days of the year to the Basque Country: the solstice hits on the 21st, and honestly? We milk every second of daylight. Lunch stretches into afternoon, afternoon melts into apéro, apéro becomes dinner, dinner becomes drinks by the sea while the sky turns pink, orange, gold…
There's no rush! This is what summer should feel like: long, lazy and luminous. Where every evening feels like a celebration just because the sun refuses to set! ☀️

📸 ADT64 - L. Maillet

24/05/2026

Edmond Rostand didn't just write Cyrano, he built a theatrical masterpiece in his own garden! 🌸

The 15-hectare gardens of Musée Arnaga, classified as “Remarkable Gardens”, awaken in spring with rare elegance, between classical rigour and poetic freedom. In spring, the flower arrangements are designed so each window of the villa frames a different plant tableau! May is when everything blooms at once: French formal gardens meet English parkland. Roses, irises, and spring bulbs in full colour… The whole thing was designed like a stage set: dramatic, romantic, utterly over-the-top in the best way.

And honestly? Standing there surrounded by flowers with the Pyrenees in the background feels like being inside a painting! 🎨 Who's ready for some serious garden envy?

📸 My Destination Angele Mary

La Villa Arnaga, Une Demeure d'exception in CAMBO-LES-BAINS: discover and book your Musée activity on the Official Tourism website for the 64.

15/05/2026

May in the Basque Country? Peak hiking season! And we're not exaggerating. 🌸☀️

The plants are in bloom, the landscapes are magnificent, and temperatures are fresh but warming up. No summer crowds, no winter chill: just green hills, wildflowers everywhere, and trails that actually breathe!

Whether you're after coastal paths or mountain peaks, this is your moment. Just remember: check trail conditions, stick to marked paths, and respect the shepherds and their flocks because the mountains are their office (and it’s a pretty nice one!). 💚

📸 G.Arrieta

05/05/2026

May bank holidays, London's drizzling, Dublin's doing its thing… And you? You could be here! ☀️😎

The Basque Country in May is what spring's supposed to feel like: warm sun, cool breeze, long days that stretch forever. Perfect for lazy lunches on seaside terraces, coastal walks without melting, and evening apéros that last until sunset (which isn't until 9pm, by the way)!

The beaches aren't packed yet, the trails are gorgeous and the water's still bracing but swimmable if you're brave. It's that sweet spot before summer kicks off: all the joy, half the chaos!

Who’s in? 👀

📸 ADT64

29/04/2026

Sea and mountains in one glance: that's the Basque Country superpower! ⛰️🌊

La Rhune peaks at 905 metres, high enough for proper views and gentle enough for a family adventure. Take the vintage rack railway (it's been chugging up since 1924) or hike if you're feeling energetic.

At the top? Spain on one side, France on the other, the Atlantic glittering in the distance. Wild pottok horses grazing like they own the place… Because, well, they do!
April weather's perfect for this. Cool air, clear skies, fewer people. Just remember: stick to marked trails, respect the wildlife, and leave nothing behind but footprints!

📸 G.Arrieta

22/04/2026

1957: an American screenwriter brought a surfboard to Biarritz and Europe's never been the same since! 🏄‍♂️
La Côte des Basques is where European surf was born. Sixty-seven years later, it's still one of the continent's most iconic breaks: powerful, moody, and unforgiving if you don't respect it.
👀 First-timer? Book a lesson with a local school because they know these waves inside out. 💪 Experienced? You already know the drill.
😎 Not surfing? No problem! Watching the Atlantic throw its weight around from a clifftop café is its own kind of magic.

Just remember: the ocean's always in charge here! Check conditions, respect the locals, and never underestimate the power of the sea. 💙

📸 ADT64

Biarritz, a seaside resort on the Basque coast. Visit the Virgin Rock, the lighthouse, the Biarritz Aquarium, discover surfing, golf and thalassotherapy.

17/04/2026

🐑 In French we don’t say “baaa”, we say “bêêê” !

Sheep’s milk cheeses that are made in the Basque mountains just have a little... "je ne sais quoi" that makes them unique. ✨

The freedom, the wide-open-spaces, the shepherd and shepherdess care, the age-old pastoral practices passed down over many generations: you can taste it all within the first bite of Ossau-Iraty! 🧀 🤤

Here, pastoralism is a way of life. It's a symbol of the deep-rooted relationship between people, Pyrénées mountains and respect for our fragile and wild nature! 💚

📸 Adrien Basse-Cathalinat / G. Arrieta

08/04/2026

👋 Here's your spring getaway sorted:

Step 1️⃣ : start at the port, fishermen unloading the morning catch, boats bobbing and that salty air that wakes you right up

Step 2️⃣ : Wander the cobbled streets. Pop into the church where Louis XIV got married (casual flex 😎) and grab lunch at a restaurant near the covered market. Fresh fish grilled to perfection, local cheese, maybe a glass of txakoli? Yes please!

Step 3️⃣ : afternoon? Stroll the beach promenade. The bay's sheltered, so even winter feels gentle here. As the sun sets, find a terrace on the Place Louis XIV and watch the sky turn pink over the Pyrenees. 💕

This isn't rushing from sight to sight, it's savouring a place that's been doing life beautifully for centuries!

📸 Adrien Basse-Cathalinat