Friday, July 9, 2010

Biarritz

Biarritz, France

With amazing beaches of soft sand and the most modern infrastructure (airport, golf camps and congress centers), Biarritz is one of the most famous beaches in France. It was first discovered at the middle of the 20 century, when the Spaniard royalty discover the beach and started to come. The final impulse came from Emperatress Eugenia de Motijo, wife of Napoleon the III, who convinced his husband to come to this beach. As a consequence, Napoleon built for her a big residence that named "Eugenia Village" and that is nowadays the famous Palace Hotel.

The Biarritz beaches have now developed into surf beaches since the Biarritz Surf Festival has taken international success. This event, that takes place during July, has the presence of the best surfers in the world and with an average attendance of 150.000 surfing fans.

Bayonne - From Biarritz, you can go to Bayonne. Bayonne is a seaport city very beautiful because of his docks and little streets of the ancient part of the city, where you can also find lot of bakeries were the chocolate lovers could find theirs paradise.

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