La Grande Plage is the most popular beach in Biarritz. Spacious, with plenty of room for sun worshipers, it is the beach on all Biarritz postcards: extremely photogenic, with red, green, blue and yellow stripped beach huts. Very popular surfing beach, it has several surfing schools, so if you always wanted to learn to surf, now is your opportunity. The beach is lined with the famous promenade, the place to stroll at sunset time, to see and be seen. On the other side of the promenade is the magnificent 19th century Belle Epoque Hotel du Palais built for the Russian Empress Eugenie. Nearby is the Byzantine Chapelle Imperiale church with magnificent gilded walls. At the end of the promenade is the Phare de Biarritz lighthouse.
Biarritz, France
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