Cambo-les-Bains
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Commune of Cambo-les-Bains |
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| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Aquitaine |
| Department | Pyrénées-Atlantiques |
| Arrondissement | Bayonne |
| Canton | Espelette |
| Mayor | Vincent Bru (2001–2008) |
| Statistics | |
| Elevation | 0 m–400 m (avg. 45 m) |
| Land area¹ | 22 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
4,416 |
| - Density | 196/km² (1999) |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 64160/ 64250 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
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Cambo-les-Bains (Basque Kanbo) is a small village in the traditional Basque province of Labourd, now in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of southern France.
[edit] Famous residents
In 1900, Edmond Rostand, writer of the play Cyrano de Bergerac, came to Cambo-les-Bains because of his pulmonary disease. He was taken by the area and in time bought some land and had a house built. It was completed in 1906. His house, the Villa Arnaga, is now a heritage site and a museum devoted to Rostand's life and Basque architecture and crafts.
The Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz died in Cambo-les-Bains in 1909. Another significant Spanish composer, Sebastián Durón, died there in 1716.
[edit] External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
- KANBO in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa) Information available in Spanish
- Edmond Rostand, Cambo-les-Bains Information about Rostand's house, now a museum, in French
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