Project Description
Watercolor
Dimensions : 20 cm x 30 cm
Signed lower right J.P. Bardonnaud
Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port
Bardonnaud Jean-Pierre (1925-1996)
Work carried out in the years 50
Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (in Basque Saint-Jeans Garazi) is a French commune located in the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in the New Aquitaine region.
Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port owes its name to its situation at the foot of the port (“col”) bramble (alt. 1 057 m), in Spanish territory. The city is located at the confluence of Nive and Laurhibar.
The kind Basque is Saintownan (or Saintowns). The kind French is Saint-Jeannais.
Former political and administrative capital of the Basse-Navarre of "Ultrapuertos" (that is to say "across the crosses"), It is today a center for exchanges and Basque cultural and sports activities.
In 2016, The town was admitted to the association Les most beautiful villages in France.
The municipality is part of the country of Cize in the Basque province of Basse-Navarre.
The old town - high town - located on the right bank of the Nive, is surrounded by ramparts of XVe century. The other pregnant, raised at XVIIe century, contains the agglomeration of the left bank.
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