Cambo-les-Bains
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | |
| Arrondissement | Bayonne | |
| Canton | Baïgura et Mondarrain (main town) | |
| Community association | Pays Basque | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 21 ′ N , 1 ° 24 ′ W | |
| height | 0-400 m | |
| surface | 22.49 km 2 | |
| Residents | 6,551 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 291 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 64250 | |
| INSEE code | 64160 | |
| Website | www.cambolesbains.fr | |
Cambo-les-Bains ( Basque Kanbo ) is a French municipality with 6551 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It is located about 17 km south of Bayonne , about ten kilometers northeast of the Spanish border. Cambo-les-Bains is located in the historic province of Labourd , in the French part of the Basque Country . The municipality belongs to the Arrondissement of Bayonne and the canton of Baïgura et Mondarrain (until 2015: canton Espelette ).
Cambo-les-Bains, located in the western foothills of the Pyrenees on the River Nive , is best known as a health resort . The thermal bath, which is well worth seeing, was built in the neoclassical style.
On the outskirts, in the direction of Larressore , is Villa Arnaga. It was built between 1900 and 1906 on behalf of the writer Edmond Rostand , author of the verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac . Rostand lived there with his wife Rosemonde Gérard until shortly before his death in 1918. Today the listed building, which also includes an artfully landscaped garden, is a museum devoted to his life and Basque handicrafts.
Cambo-les-Bains is the place of death of the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz , the Spanish organist Sebastián Durón and the French politician Georges Bidault .
In addition, Blanche Zélia Joséphine Delacroix , Baroness de Vaughan, called Caroline Lacroix (born May 13, 1883 in Bucharest ), the morganatic wife of the Belgian King Leopold II, died in Cambo-les-Bains on February 12, 1948 .
economy
Cambo-les-Bains is one of the ten municipalities that are allowed to grow and sell the Basque pepper Piment d'Espelette under the Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) designation of origin .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Actimage: Fiche produit. In: www.inao.gouv.fr. Retrieved April 1, 2016 .