Cambo-les-Bains

French commune
nomcommune=Cambo-les-Bains
Gardens of Arnaga in Cambo-les-Bains
région=Aquitaine
département=Pyrénées-Atlantiques

arrondissement=Bayonne
canton=Espelette

insee=64160
cp=64250
maire=Vincent Bru
mandat=2001–2008
intercomm=
longitude=-1.40027777778
latitude=43.3588888889
alt moy=45 m
alt mini=0 m
alt maxi=400 m
hectares=2,249
km²=22
sans=4,416
date-sans=1999
dens=196
date-dens=1999

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.

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.

External links

* [http://www.euskomedia.org/aunamendi/53878 KANBO in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa)] Information available in Spanish
* [http://www.linternaute.com/sortir/maison-ecrivain/rostand.shtm Edmond Rostand, Cambo-les-Bains] Information about Rostand's house, now a museum, in French