Outgoing
Memorial aux Bayonnais 1
Fine Arts Exhibition
Memorial aux Bayonnais 2
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Memorial aux Bayonnais

Grand Bayonne

This WWI memorial honors 800 fallen Bayonnais with striking sculptures—a Basque peasant with bull on one side, a soldier with rifle on the other—capturing the tension between rural life and war's demands.

Historic war memorial
Peaceful garden setting
Centenary restoration
Basque cultural heritage

Tips

🌳lovely shaded garden behind with benches
🕊️unveiled 1924, freshly restored for centenary
📍on Esplanade de Glacié at city edge

Memorial aux Bayonnais

Sq. Pierre Simonet, 64100 Bayonne, France