Urrugne

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

Located in the province of the Labourd, Urrugne belongs to the Basque Country.

Its name Basque is Urruña .

The name of inhabitant is urruñar .

Geography

Urrugne is in the middle of a vast commune extending from the buttresses from the chain from the the Pyrenees (Rhune, Cholgokogaina, the mount of the Martyrdom) to the shredded littoral falling down in the the Bay of Biscay in fantastic cliffs verticales.
The grounds of the commune are sprinkled by the Untxin, river coastal which is thrown in the ocean in bay of Saint-Jean-with-Luz.

Localities and variations

The collar of Ibardin, part of the district of Socoa (Zokoa) and the frontier hamlet of Béhobie depend administratively on Urrugne.
  • Kexiloa
  • Legartze
  • Herburu
  • Unabaita
  • Mendi xoko
  • Antziola
  • Olheta

Communes bordering

History

Blasonnement

“Of gold with lion of mouths holding in its dextral leg, a perished dart bars of it the point in top and of same, started from azure to a flower of gold lily”.

Administration

Intercommunality

The common one belongs to the Basque Eurocité Bayonne - San Sebastian.

Demography

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

  • Château of Urtubie
  • Urrugne was rewarded for a flower to the Concours for the cities and flowered villages 2006.

Religious heritage

  • Saint-Vincent Church 11th century
  • formed Together by the vault of Notre-Dame de Sokorri, the way of faith of Marie and the cemetery period epidemic of plague (northern)
  • vault of the Mount Martyrdom, old hermitage (southern)
  • vault saint Michel Garicoïts with the Olhette district (is)
  • Église Saint-François-Xabier (Socoa district)
  • Église Saint-Jacob (Béhobie district)
  • oratorical and cross disseminated in the mountain and Piedmont

Famous characters

Twinnings

Related articles

Common of the Yrénées-Atlantiques

External bond

  • Official site of the tourist office

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