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Biarritz (UK: / b ɪəˈr ɪ t s, ˈ b ɪər ɪ t s / beer-ITS, BEER-its, [3] [4] US: / ˌ b iː ə ˈ r ɪ t s, ˈ b iː ə r ɪ t s / BEE-ə-RITS, -rits, [3] [5] French: ⓘ, Basque:; also spelled Miarritze [mi.arits̻e]; Occitan: Biàrritz) is a city on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the French Basque Country in southwestern France. [6]
The ancient Roman Lapurdum, from which the toponyms Labourd and Lapurdi originate, is a part of the Biarritz-Anglet-Bayonne agglomeration community (BAB) alongside Biarritz and Anglet (Basque: Angelu), the most populated urban space in the territory. It is the political capital of its subprefecture and economic capital of the largest region ...
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Following D-Day in Normandy, Operation Dragoon (initially Operation Anvil), the code name for the Allied invasion of Southern France, commenced on 15 August 1944, when American parachute troops landed near Fréjus, and a fleet landed 60,000 troops of the American Seventh Army and French First Army between Cavalaire and Agay, east of Saint-Raphaël.
The main airport is Bordeaux-Merignac, world class, which hosts nearly four and a half million passengers per year and offers flights to many destinations; It is the seventh metropolitan France Airport (fifth if we except the Paris airports). The terminal of the Biarritz-Anglet-Bayonne Airport, which has the second greatest attendance in the ...
Hotel du Palais Biarritz in 1919. The building is set on the main beach of the town, which lies on the rugged coast of the Bay of Biscay at the foot of the Pyrenees. [2] In 1854, the emperor Napoleon III and his wife Eugénie bought several acres of dunes in Biarritz and gave the engineer Dagueret the task of establishing a summer home surrounded by gardens, woods, meadows, a pond and ...
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Biarritz is a city in France. Biarritz may also refer to Geography. Biarritz, Uruguay, a seaside resort in Canelones Department, Uruguay;