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Ciboure
Ciboure is a municipality, located in the Atlantic Pyrenees Department (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. Ciboure (Ziburu in Basque) means «end of the bridge».
One part of the town is part of the Basque province of Labourd, the other is part of the French region of Bayonne.
Ciboure is divided from the town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz by the Nivelle river and the port in the Bay of Biscay. As a neighbor of the “royal city”, who greeted Louis XIV during his marriage with Maria Theresa, Infanta of Spain (Marie-Thérèse d’Autriche), in 1643, Ciboure also offers an equally outstanding heritage in the form of Socoa Fort, which guarded the exit to the Bay of Biscay.
Ciboure is one of the most popular Atlantic resorts in France today.
Tourism, sights, and what to see?
The main resort’s attraction is Socoa Fort, which was built under King Louis XIII (father of the “Sun King”), and then improved by Sebastien Vauban – a fam
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Maurice Ravel and the Basque Country
1875 | Born on March 7 in the “Ravel house” on the Quai de la Nivelle (as it was then called). Baptized March 13 in Ciboure church.
Childhood and education in Paris; Basque-speaking environment provided by mother, aunt and Gaudin friends. Basque is the only language he knows and speaks apart from French.
1899 |Pavane pour une infante défunte (probably inspired by the story of the Maison de l’Infante).
1902 | First stays in the Pays natal with his aunt Gachucha in the Iriart-Gaudin family.
1903 |Samantine pour piano on a Basque theme.
1911 | Basque imprint through extended stays in Saint-Jean-de-Luz and Ciboure.
Sketch of a Basque rhapsody for piano and orchestra: Zazpiak-bat.
1912 |Daphnis et Chloé: the work ends with a lively zortziko: the famous Bacchanale.
1913 |Trio for violin, cello and piano composed entirely in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, rue Sophie. Maurice Ravel befriends André Pavlowsky, Marguerite Lo
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Culture of the Basque Country
The Basque Country is a cross-border cultural region that has a distinctive culture including its own language, customs, festivals, and music.
The Basques living in the territory are primarily represented bygd the emblem of the flag Ikurriña, as well as the Lauburu cross and the Zazpiak Bat coat of arms. The Gernikako Arbola and the Agur Jaunak are its most recognizable anthems in music, and the oak its most revered tree (cf. the aforementioned Tree of Gernika).
Despite their present conspicuous secularization, the Basques have been Catholics for centuries. However, they owe much of their religious festivals to ancestral beliefs and pagan sites, sometimes extending as late as the 15th century.[citation needed] Saint Miguel, Saint Mary, Saint John and Saint Peter are its most worshiped and ancient cults, while during the Modern period new saints came into being, notably Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Saint Francis Xavier.