Biarritz

This unfinished page contains text from either the 2003 or 2005 print version of Encyclopedia of Surfing. An updated version, with more photos, is coming soon.

Elegant beachfront holiday town in southwest France, 20 miles north of the Spanish border, facing west into the Atlantic Ocean's Bay of Biscay; the birthplace of French surfing. The surf along the two-mile-long Biarritz beachfront—Côte de Basques and le Grande Plage are separated by a small, craggy headland—is generally mediocre beachbreak. But the adjacent town of Anglet, located just to the no...

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