Aquitaine
It’s located in the French south-western and is
the nearest as geographically as culturally to Spain.
Its capital is Bordeaux, city that lives on the commerce
and specially of the wine industry. Around the city there
are several vineyards zones with châteaux for the
tasting and the purchase of good broths (Médoc,
Libourne or Between-deux-Mers are three of these areas).
To the north of the region is a zone of important prehistoric
deposits (Les Eyzes and the valley of the Vézère)
and several medieval cities as Périgueux, Sarlat
and Bergerac. The region is crossed by the Dordogne and
Garonne rivers. To the south of the mouth of both rivers,
the coast is a beach attainment and the inland is dominated
by extensive Landas, an immense pine forest planted in
the 19th century to restrain the depopulation and that
now forms a Natural Park.
It outstands the so called Duna du Pila, in Arcachon,
a sand elevation with more than 100 meters of altitude.
In its southern part is the French Basque Country, whose
interest are centred in the coast with small fishermen
towns and 19th century mansions as Biarritz, San Juan
de Luz or Hendaya.
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