Hendaye
Hendaye occupies a sandy coastal strip at the mouth of the Bidasoa in France’s Basque Country. The river forms the international boundary with Irun in Spain before reaching the Bay of Biscay, giving the town a distinctly cross-border identity. Hendaye’s long beach faces the Atlantic and is an established surfing area on the French Basque coast. Château d’Abbadia, a 19th-century neo-Gothic residence commissioned by explorer and scientist Antoine d’Abbadie, was designed by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. The Treaty of the Pyrenees, which ended the Franco-Spanish War in 1659, was signed on Île des Faisans in the Bidasoa.
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Hendaye occupies a coastal strip at the mouth of the Bidassoa, on France’s Basque shore of the Bay of Biscay in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The river forms the frontier with Spain, with Hondarribia standing on the opposite bank. On the Bidassoa, Île des Faisans is jointly administered by France and Spain; the Treaty of the Pyrenees was signed there in 1659. Château d’Abbadia, a 19th-century neo-Gothic residence built for scientist and explorer Antoine d’Abbadie, stands on the coast, while the Deux Jumeaux rocks mark the end of Hendaye’s beach. Browse nearby webcams to place Hendaye within the French Basque coast and the Bidassoa borderlands.
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