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Down along the southwestern coast of France, the mighty Atlantic rolls up to some of the most charming towns in the tour guides, including Biarritz and St. Jean de Luz. 
Yet, tiny Guethary, tucked away between its two more famous neighbours, offers old-fashioned French Basque charm, with elderly gentlemen in berets chatting away beside the town jai alai fronton, or court. (Jai alai, a game much like handball, is wildly popular in Basque country. The ball is caught and hurled at a wall with a wicker basket strapped to the wrist.)
In Basque country, the town hall, the fronton and the church form the heart of the village, often the scene of traditional fairs with singing and dancing.
If you're a young surfer, you certainly won't skip this village.
The famous Guethary wave, pounding off the beach known as Parlementia, offers the wild surf crowd some of the best rides east of Malibu.
Guethary, 'the Basque town at the ocean,' boasts 1,296 inhabitants living in splendid tranquility in houses perched on a hill sloping down to the Atlantic. When the summer sun beats down on the rust-red and white houses, you have the feeling that plenty of them are outdoors enjoying themselves.
For centuries, townsfolk eked out a living whaling, fishing and farming. Tourism came relatively early for such a remote town, after a railroad link to nearby Biarritz was finished in the 19th century. Suddenly Guethary benefited from the visitor boom in bigger and better-known Biarritz to the north, with upper-class Parisians looking for a summer escape.
Many of the buildings probably still look a lot the way the did back then. But the visitors have certainly changed - with the influx each summer of tanned, shaggy-haired surfers.
Guethary is home to one of Europe's best-known waves, a powerful swell that can reach heights of over 3 metres (10 feet) and which break several hundred meters (and several hundred more feet) from the rocky beach.
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