Arcangues
Arcangues is a common French, located in the department of the Yrénées-Atlantiques and the area Aquitaine.
Located in the province of the Labourd, Arcangue belongs to the Basque Country.
Its Basque name is Arrangoitz E, of old * a Arkhangoiz ( Archangois in 1302) meaning “in top of the hillock”.
The name of inhabitant is arrangoiztar .
Geography
Communes bordering
- Rebated joint in north
- Bassussarry in the North-East
- Ustaritz in the east
- Arbonne in the west
- Ahetze in south-west
- Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle in the south
- Biarritz in north
History
Heraldic
Administration
Intercommunality
The common one belongs to the Basque Eurocité Bayonne - San Sebastian.
Demography
Culture and Inheritance
civil architecture of the village:- castle of Arcangues rebuilt in 1900
- castle of the Thicket rebuilt in 1905 by Jean-Baptiste Ernest Lacombe
- church of the 16th century
Personalities
It is in Arcangues which rests the Basque tenor Luis Mariano. Victim of badly neat hepatitis, the prince of the operetta died out on July 14th, 1970. Regularly, the cemetery is invaded by its admirors. His burial easily is located because it is covered with flowers.
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