Bidart

Region: Aquitaine
Departement: (64) Pyrenees Atlantiques
Locality: Pays Basque

Bidart is a small hill top town located between the Route National 10 and the sea, with charm and tranquillity in abundance, no hustle and bustle here in comparison to the larger resort town of Biarritz, just on its doorstep to the North.
Bidart & Guethary are where the Pay Basque countryside and coast meet and create a good mixture.
Most of the beaches are found at the base of a cliff (which, even in the height of the summer are not crowded), with the exception of two, the Plage d'Ilbarritz and Plage de l'Uhabia which are large open normal beaches.

The principle Architecture here is typically Basque (as the Mairie picture below left shows), white facades, Basque red shutters and colombage timbers and red pan-tiled roofs (when the sun is shining, the brightness from these houses is astounding), all the way from Bidart to Saint Jean de Luz and Hendaye.