Hiking guide - Spanish Basque Country | Rother (French)

Guide to 50 hiking Majorily in the Spanish Basque Country published by rother.

200 pages, 113 color photos, 50 altitude profiles, 50 maps at 1:50 000, 1:25 000 and 1:75 000, a synoptic map.

This is a real paradise for hikers, bringing together all possible varieties of landscapes: fascinating coasts through enchanting forests and steep peaks to a strange desert. And to complete the whole, a fantastic gastronomy combining the best of what sea and land can offer.

The Rother Basque Country Hiking guide Surveys this exceptional region of the north - east of Spain and southwestern France by offering you 50 selected routes. Beautiful protected natural environments and a remarkable trail network make this place a pure pleasure for hiking, whether along the wild Atlantic coast, in the countless grooves and forests natural parks or during lonely mountain excursions , at 1500 m altitude on average. The Basques are lovers of hiking and it feels felt in the impressive maze of trails, dense and carefully maintained, Spanish side as French side.

The authors, Franz Halbartschlager and Gerhard Ruß, have selected and gathered a variegated panel of superb itineraries that covers all territories of the historic cross - border basic country: from the Euskadi Spanish to the Pyrenees Basque de France, with Passages in Navarre. They guide you through breathtaking landscapes and take advantage of it to give some insights into the history and culture of these regions inhabited for as long as man remembers. Thanks to the precise descriptions of the courses and small maps and altimetric profiles established for each itinerary, the hikers are adorned for beautiful and pleasant hours of walking, rich in sensations. The GPS plots of all routes are also available in free download on the website of the Rother editions.