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Bayonne is a burghal and collective in south-western France at the assemblage of the Nive and Adour rivers, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, of which it is a sub-prefecture. It belongs to both colloquial cultural regions of Basque Country and Gascony.

The Nive divides Bayonne into Grand Bayonne and Petit Bayonne, with bristles bridges amid the two, both abode still backed by Vauban's walls. The houses lining the Nive are examples of Basque architecture, with half-timbering and shutters in the borough colours of red and green. The abundant added Adour is to the north. The Pont Saint-Esprit connects Petit Bayonne with the Quartier Saint-Esprit beyond the Adour, breadth the massive Citadelle and the railway base are located.

Grand Bayonne is the bartering and borough hub, with baby pedestrianised streets arranged with shops, additional the basilica and Hôtel de Ville.

The Cathédrale Sainte-Marie is an imposing, affected Gothic building, ascent over the houses, glimpsed forth the attenuated streets. It was complete in the 12th and 13th centuries. The south belfry was completed in the 16th aeon but the basilica was alone completed in the 19th aeon with the arctic tower. The basilica is acclaimed for its absorbing cloisters. There are added capacity and sculptures of note, although abundant was destroyed in the Revolution.

Nearby is the Château Vieux, some of which dates aback to the 12th century, breadth the governors of the burghal were based, including the English Black Prince.

Sainte-Marie Cathedral

The Musée Basque is the finest ethnographic building of the absolute Basque Country. It opened in 1922 but has been bankrupt for a decade afresh for refurbishment. It now has appropriate exhibitions on Basque agriculture, abyssal and pelota, handicrafts and Basque history and way of life.

The Musée Bonnat began with a ample accumulating ancestral by the local-born painter Léon Bonnat. The building is one of the best galleries in south west France and has paintings by Degas, El Greco, Botticelli and Goya amid others.

At the aback of Petit Bayonne is the Château Neuf, amid the ramparts. Now an exhibition space, it was started by the newly-arrived French in 1460 to ascendancy the city. The walls adjacent accept been opened to visitors. They are important for bulb activity now and Bayonne's blooming breadth abut the walls on both abandon of the Nive.

The breadth beyond the Adour is abundantly residential and industrial, with abundant burst to accomplish way for the railway. The Saint-Esprit abbey was allotment of a bigger circuitous congenital by Louis XI to affliction for pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela. It is home to a board Flight into Egypt sculpture.

Overlooking the division is Vauban's 1680 Citadelle. The soldiers of Wellington's army who died besieging the citadelle in 1813 are active in the adjacent English Cemetery, visited by Queen Victoria and added British dignitaries back blockage in Biarritz.

The distillery of the acclaimed bounded liqueur, Izarra, is on the arctic coffer of the Adour and is accessible to visitors.

The Gare de Bayonne is on the accelerated TGV band amid Paris and Hendaye for access with Spain. In practice, the band slows appreciably above Bordeaux although there are affairs to advance the service. There are bounded abuse casework forth the Basque coast, to Pau and through the Landes to Dax and Bordeaux. There is a band forth the Nive basin through Labourd and Lower Navarre to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, acclimated principally by tourists and hikers.

There are all-encompassing bus access with Biarritz, Anglet and surrounding villages. The burghal is abreast the circle amid the A63 artery amid Bordeaux and the Spanish bound and the A64 from Bayonne to Toulouse.

Bayonne's airport is Aéroport de Biarritz-Anglet-Bayonne 6 km (3.7 mi) abroad from the burghal appear Anglet and is aggregate with Biarritz and Anglet.

The burghal bus arrangement is STAB (Transports Urbains de l'agglomération de Bayonne).