Things to do and visits in Biarritz

Wednesday at 10pm is the official opening of the Fêtes de Bayonne! Make your way to the Place de la Liberté for this unique and magnificent occasion. Good humour and excitement are the order of the day. The symbolic moment of the handing over of key

Since 1932, the year four friends from the Bayonne region decided to put together the Bayonne Festival (emulating the festival in Pampalona), this festival has been up there with the most popular events in the country and even in Europe. The peñas (

The best female tennis players on the professional circuit (those ranked in the top 100) will gather in Biarritz for the Suez Gaz French Open. Each player will seek to shine and will fight to reach the final in order to be in with a chance to win th

This is a key event for golfers which has taken place very year for over a century at the Golf du Phare. Many countries will be represented and over 500 players will take part. This is the oldest amateur golf tournament in France, and draws crowds o

Make sure to make a note of the BIG Festival in Biarritz in your agenda! This excellent festival plays host annually to some of the top names in rock, French chanson, reggae and electro. A great line up of international artists will perform on stage

Hours before the opening of the Fêtes de Bayonne, a foot race of about 12km is organised in Bayonne city, called the Foulée of Festayre.Open to all, this trial allows the participating festayres to take in Biarritz, Anglet, with the race finishing i

Dates to be confirmed. The Biarritz Antiques Fair will this year gather over 65 exhibitors from the whole of France with items that date back to every imaginable epoch… Furniture, art work, trinkets and objects… Anything goes at the Antiques Fair. P

Show jumping is a noble sport, one among the many disciplines of the equestrian world. Don't miss out on this spectacular event as some of the top riders and horses in the field will be taking part. Anyone with even the slightest interest in horse-r

When Biarritz celebrates the sea, it certainly does not do things by half! Lots of activities are planned during the Oceans festival in the seaside town to usher in and celebrate the arrival of summer. Every year, Biarritz organises all kinds of ent

Every year, over a thousand keen bridge players gather in Biarritz for this festival which brings together the top world players including the likes of Zia Mahmood and Paul Chemla. There are sure to be some fascinating hands from these expert player

The surfing film festival annually selects and awards the best surfing movies, including fiction and documentary, featuring the most talented surfers, all competing to lift the trophy in a competition adjudicated by a jury composed of passionate sur

Throughout the summer months, artists will be coming to the squares, streets, cultural centres and coastlines of the French town of Anglet. The fourth Anglet Contemporary Art Biennale gives the public a chance to see the work of home-grown and inter

Once again, the Brouillarta exhibition brings together some hundred painters, sculptors, and watercolourists and will be held near the famous Grande Plage in Biarritz. Over the years, this exhibition has become a genuine showcase and meeting place b

At the heart of Biarritz, a stone's throw away from the large beach and overlooking the ocean, the musée oceanographic de Biarritz is a very exhaustive museum on the ocean, its flora and fauna. The aim is to study the historical, geographical, econo

This is an imposing rock that Napoléon III decided to use as an anchorage point in the sea wall of the Port du Refuge that he wanted to build.The rock was consequently linked to the land by a wooden bridge (replaced by a metal footbridge attributed