There are many pleasant seaside towns along the Atlantic coast but Biarritz, near the Spanish border, is probably the most popular. Once favoured by European aristocracy, it is a fashionable seaside town with stately old hotels, casinos and good surfing spots for the younger generation. The town's cultural sights are not likely to keep you out of the sun too long but they include a blue-domed Russian Orthodox church, hotels with lobbies the size of skating rinks and the Musée de la Mer. The latter - recently refurbished - has an aquarium with numerous tanks of sea life, and a museum.

Created in 1967, the Pyrenees National Park stretches for about 100kms along the French-Spanish border and covers an area of 460km2 that contains hundreds of high-altitude lakes and the highest point in the French Pyrenees, the 3300m Sommet du Vignemale.

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