Guéthary is small a common French, formerly port whaler, then thonnier and sardine boat, located in the department of the Yrénées-Atlantiques and the area Aquitaine.
Its Basque name is Getaria (resulting from Catari , of the Latin Captare : to see, see - or of Gaitar , in Basque: guard - or of Gaitari , in Gascon: to watch for). Its inhabitants are the Guéthariars (the Guétariens are the estivants).
Geography
The path of the Littoral (Biarritz/Hendaye) inaugurated in 2005 crosses Guéthary. Its departure is practically at the end of the pier, with the steps of the beach of Alcyons.
Localities and variations
- Akotz
- Behereta
- Elizaldea
- Haizpuru
Communes bordering
- Bidart in north
- Saint-Jean-with-Luz in south-west.
History
The semaphore (old Atalaye), always places, was used from there as observation post of the whales in bay, and the pirates.
When Guéthariars saw the Baleine S, they killed their traînières from the port and left to harpoon them. When they were attacked by pirates or bands of brigands, they took refuge in the farm " Ostalapia" on the way of Ahetze (it is an old relay of Saint-Jacques-of-Compostelle).
Guéthary became a Seaside resort, thanks to its wild beaches, its algae and its splits, and since 1959, with its " spots" of (" Gros") Surfing ( Avalanche Beach of Cénitz, Alcyons, the wave of Parlementia divided with Bidart) and with its geographical position between Biarritz and Saint-Jean-with-Luz.
Formerly there was a " tramway" who connected these two cities along the RN 10, it forked at the exit of Guéthary and borrowed the " Way of Trinquet".
Lastly, for the anecdote, it should be known that the court, the armies and Louis XIV, crossed the street of the Church, after having borrowed the street of the Schools, then the way of the Emperor, (which were not called thus at the time…). They went quite simply to Saint-Jean-to-Luz for the marriage of the king with Infante of Spain! A few centuries later it is the German army left to the conquest Spain which on the RN10 crossed Guéthary for finally arréter to Hendaye following the agreements concluded between Hitler and Franco.
True story: Guéthary was quarantined a whole night, in August 1963 a lion escapes from a travelling circus stationed opposite the pension " Bichta Eder" , Which occurred Guetaria, around 9 p.m. 30 and wanders in the commune all the night, killing out of a blow of claw a child; it is cut down in the small hour, Chemin Dochenia, by a motorist set on Safari which held in its trunk a rifle… because neither the firemen nor the gendarmerie had some at the time. This motorist, called " Gaby " , returned at his place late in the night; he was indeed the owner of a night club " Tagada" sails very about it at the time!
Heraldic
Administration
Intercommunality
The common one belongs to the Basque Eurocité Bayonne - San Sebastian.
Demography
Monuments
Religious heritage
- Church of XIIe century: Saint Nicolas
Civil inheritance
- the Museum of Guéthary: One finds there the vestiges Roman found in the commune and works of the sculptor Swiecinski. It also shelters exposures of contemporary artists. (Saraleguinea Villa)
- the footbridge " Itsasoan" of the architect Godbarge (1927).
- the port, strongly tilted to hoist the whales.
- the war memorial of Maxime Real del Sarte.
- the Town hall of the architect Brana. It contains a very beautiful painting of the port of Guéthary by Arrue, Basque painter strongly influenced by the Art déco, like two other representations of Basque scenes (visible in the room of honor IRINTZINA).
- the Vault of Parlementia (locality, commune of Bidart), with its " grills" to move away the patients, in particular the leprous ones, who was used as halt on the coastal way of the way of Saint-Jacques-of-Compostelle.
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