Basque Country Sports

Surfing

The surf is good up and down this coast. The beaches of Bidart attract lots of surfers.
If you want to hone your surfing skills, contact Eric Garry, the monitor at Quiksilver:
Ecole de Surf Quiksilver de Biarritz

6 Allée de l'Orée du Lac - 64200 Biarritz

+33 (0)5.59.41.11.18 or +33 (0)6.03.80.36.25

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Golf Courses

The Basque Country has beautiful and well-known golf courses. Some look have ocean views, others have mountain views. They're all stunning!.

 

Basque Pelota

You won't find a single village in the Basque Country without its pelota games or local festivities. There are various forms of playing the game: bare-handed, with the pala or the chistera. There's the paleta goma made of rubber, the pala made of leather, the short paleta, the long paleta, and the zesta punta for playing jai alai. Of course, that's not all.

 

Come to Bidart and learn all about pelota, the grand fronton and the petit fronton, then return home as the town's leading expert of this world-famous Basque sport.

 

Rafting and Canyoning

Come discover the thrill of paddling downriver with a team of pros.
Uhina Rafting
Rue Latxaia

64780 BIDARRAY

Telephone: +33 (0)5.59.37.76.59 or +33 (0)6.15.38.79.38

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Herri Kirolak: Basque Rural Sports Competitions

Traditional sports competitions pit rural workers against each other to see who is the strongest and most enduring. You can have fun flexing your muscles in games first designed for lumberjacks, farmers, fishermen, and other traditional Basque labourers with powerful arms.