Is Aquitaine the new Cote D’Azur?
Aquitaine is a vast and varied region of France, spreading over the South West of the country, stretching as far as the Spanish borders in the West and incorporating the mountains of the Pyrenees to the East. It includes the verdant countryside of the Dordogne and the wine-rich Bordeaux in the North. With all this variety, it has a great deal to offer the visitor or resident, with an enormous amount of history, reflected in its stunning and diverse architecture, to say nothing of its influences from the Spanish and the Basques, manifesting itself in the lifestyle, music, food and traditions of the region. Aquitaine is probably most famous for its dramatic coastline and famous seaside resorts of Biarritz and St Jean-de-Luz, internationally renowned for their surf and reefs for diving and with the added benefit of being a short distance from the mountains and their surrounding picturesque villages and countryside. This part of Aquitaine is known as the ‘Cote Basque’ and is very different
