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There is a line along the Nive valley through Labourd and Lower Navarre to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, used principally by tourists and hikers.
* Imanol Harinordoquy ( born 1980 ), French international rugby union player ( born in Bayonne, but grew up in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port )
Charles II retreated over the Pyrenees to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and in October he made his way to Bordeaux to plead for military aid from Sir John Neville, the Lieutenant of Gascony.
** September 2: Assassination of Juan Manuel Otegi, alleged ETA member, in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port.
The pass is located near Roncesvalles ( Spain ) and Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port ( France ).
The route over the pass departs from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port on the French side and from Lintzoain on the Spanish side.
Its capitals were Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and Saint-Palais.
Beyond Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port itself, the Nive enters the Ossès valley, with many beautiful old houses with carved lintels in the villages of Ossès, Irissarry and Bidarray.
North of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port is the Mixe region around the town of Saint-Palais, a former Navarrese capital.
The Way of St James headed south from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port towards the mountain pass above Roncesvalles.
While these valleys were taken over again by Gascony for a period, the Ultrapuertos County ( called Merindad in Navarre ) was regained for Navarre in 1234, coming to be governed by the sheriff of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port.
In 1512 the Duke of Alba under orders from king Ferdinand II of Aragon led an army that invaded Navarre, seizing Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port.
Common starting points along the French border are Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port or Somport on the French side of the Pyrenees and Roncesvalles or Jaca on the Spanish side.
Both of these are traversed by the main road leading north from Roncesvalles to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, in the French Basque Country.
On 3 June, a 2, 300-man French brigade commanded by General of Brigade ( BG ) Lavictoire stormed the Casa Fuorte position at Izpegi Pass ( Col d ' Ispeguy ) 13. 5 airline km west of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port.
Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port ( literally meaning " Saint John at the foot of the mountain pass " in French ) () is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France close to Ostabat in the Pyrenean foothills.
The routes from Paris, Vézelay and Le Puy-en-Velay meet at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and it was the pilgrims ' last stop before the arduous mountain crossing.
Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port is the terminus on the railway line from Bayonne through the French Basque Country, along the valley of the river Nive, with several services each day.
* Charles Floquet ( 1828 – 1896 ), born in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, French lawyer and statesman.
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