The Basque Country is one of Europe’s oldest and strongest cultures. It encompasses the region located in northern Spain, on the Bay of Biscay at the western end of the Pyrenees mountain range, straddling the frontier between southern France and Spain.
In Spain’s Basque Country, experience art, culture, and the world’s best dining Michelin stars meet mountain villages in one of Europe's most unforgettable regions.
The Basque Country (País Vasco in Spanish or Euskadi in Basque) is a fascinating region of Spain with distinct ethnic composition, unique culture, and language.
The Basque Country is a cultural region that overlaps the western side of the border between France and Spain where the Basque people have lived for centuries. Basques refer to their homeland in their own language as Euskal Herria....
The land of the Basque people, split between Spain and France, is a “nation without a state” — left off the map when they drew Europe’s national borders. The Basque Country is often left out of travel ...
In particular in common usage the French term Pays Basque ("Basque Country"), in the absence of further qualification, refers either to the whole Basque Country ("Euskal Herria" in Basque), or not infrequently to the northern (or "French") Basque Country specifically.
Basque, member of a people who live in both Spain and France in areas bordering the Bay of Biscay and encompassing the western foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains.
In the Basque Country you can have an endless range of options to choose from: restaurants with Michelin stars, restaurants serving nouvelle cuisine, grill restaurants and traditional cider houses.
The Basque people have been an enigma to anthropologists for years. With a unique language, traditions, and customs, Basque origins have long been a mystery. Researchers now believe they have finally pinpointed the beginnings of this special group of people - from the results of a study of eight ancient skeletons found in a cave in northern Spain.