Learn French in Biarritz with CESA Languages Abroad, you can even try your hand at surfing too!

Learn French in Biarritz

About Biarritz

CESA Languages students love the chance to combine French language study with a beach lifestyle in Biarritz. It is a peaceful haven niched between the Pyrenees Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean, originally a quaint fishing village, until the end of the 19th century. Since then Biarritz has rapidly become a fashionable, refined seaside resort. This era brought a prestigious clientele to the town and hence considerably developed its architecture, elegant buildings a, casinos and palaces that today form the town's reputation.

Biarritz has a lot more than beautiful buildings to offer today. It's a vibrant cosmopolitan town with magnificent beaches, golf courses and numerous sporting facilities, not forgetting the surf. French surfing started in Biarritz and surfers come from all over the world to ride the waves. CESA Languages students particularly enjoy the French Language and Surfing course (which inevitably sells out in the height of the summer!).

Local Specialities

The town of Biarritz offers a good mix of brassieres, bistros and more formal dining. There is also a good blend of French, Southwestern and the more local Basque cuisine though seafood is the real speciality of this seaside town. Basque cuisine favours goose products such as “foie gras” and “commit doe”, as well as salty ham from Bayonne, known as jambon de Bayonne, which resembles Parma ham. Two typical Basque dishes include an omelette with tomatoes, chillies and Bayonne ham that resembles scrambled eggs and sweet red peppers with eel or cod. For dessert, try a rich gateau Basque, a cake filled with black cherry preserves.

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