Hélette

Hélette is a common French, located in the department of the Yrénées-Atlantiques and the area Aquitaine.

Its name Basque is Heleta .

Geography

Localities and variations

  • Antxarteta
  • Garreta
  • Habia
  • Heguagaraia
  • Heraitze (Herauritz)
  • Hozkaitzeta
  • Plaza
  • Urbeltzeta
  • Xistela
  • Zuharritze
  • ZI Ur-zabaleta
  • Madarieta
  • Gibelherri

Communes bordering

History

Administration

Intercommunality

The commune adheres to the Mixed trade-union of the contract of river of Nives.

Demography

Culture and inheritance

Religious heritage

  • the church of Hélette, as those of the old diocese of Bayonne (the construction of these galleries was decided by the bishop of Bayonne, so accommodating more the faithful ones), has three stages of wood galleries. Those go back to 1695. Traditionally, the men took seat there while the women settled in bottom. The chorus is richly decorated in the spirit Baroque.
  • has Hélette, at the time of the Corpus Christi, young people, covered military behaviors of the E century, carry out in the church a true parade, to recall that the area was never estimated pledged at Napoleon.

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