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Cambo-les-Bains
Cambo les Bains, just 15 minutes drive from Bayonne is in the Labourd department in the French Basque Country.
Cambo les Bains is a spa town and was once a centre for the treatment of tuberculosis. It is an attractive town. The newer, upper town is full of hotels, bars and restaurants and looks down over the River Nive and the old town below. The old town is in typical Basque style with white buildings and red or green shutters, usually red as seems to be the case in most of the villages in this area. The town has lots of open spaces and is proud of its gardening traditions.
Take a look at the Thermes at Cambo, an attractive Art Deco building and you can wander around the exuberantly planted garden even if not taking a treatment. The gardens are lovely filled with lots of palms and flowers.
The main sight to see on a trip to Cambo les Bains is the Villa Arnaga. Edmond Rostand, author of Cyrano de Bergerac came to Cambo les Bains to recover from his pulmonary disease. He was so impressed with the area that he had a villa built here. The villa is very large and in a Basque style. Lots of large windows make the inside very light. Many of the rooms have lovely wood panelling and most have some part of the walls or panels painted by artists of the era commissioned by Rostand.
There are also lots of photographs and information about the various theatre and cinema productions of Cyrano de Bergerac.
Perhaps the best part of the visit though is the garden. You enter near the stables and walk up to the villa through the magnificent French-style gardens. A typically very formal layout with pools of water, gravel paths, shaped parterres and lots flowers. The best part is near the stables where an Italianate columned structure, fronted by lots of superb hydrangeas, overlooks a large pool and fountain.
Near to Cambo les Bains there is Bayonne, Biarritz, and St Jean de Luz on the coast and the villages of Espelette and Itxassou nearby.
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Places to visit - Cambo-les-Bains
Explore places within about 70 kilometres on a map: Cambo-les-Bains.
Some of the closer places are listed below (distances from Cambo-les-Bains are approximate and direct - as the crow flies. Only places listed on the france this way site are shown!)
- Ainhoa Most beautiful village at 12 km
- Anglet town at 19 km
- Bayonne Important town at 17 km
- Biarritz Atlantic resort and surf capital at 22 km
- Espelette chilli village at 5 km
- Itxassou pretty village at 3 km
- La Bastide-Clairence Most beautiful village at 18 km
- La Rhune Basque mountain at 26 km
- Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port Attractive town at 28 km
- Sare Most beautiful village at 20 km
- See also Cambo-les-Bains (version Francais)
Tourist Classifications for Cambo-les-Bains
- approved Station Verte - resort paying particular attention to its natural environment
- approved Station Classée - resort paying particular attention to facilities for tourism
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