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France, Anglet, seafront, Gold sands beach, ophitic rip-rap. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- France, Anglet, seafront, Gold sands beach, ophitic rip-rap
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BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Anglet
How work, access and surfing shaped Anglet.
Scroll to follow the shoreline through time
Anglet (French: ; Occitan: , Basque: Angelu ) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France.
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1083
Work at the water’s edge
The history of Anglet actually appears from the Middle Ages where it was discovered that the core of the oldest settlement is located in a rural area called "Berindos" which is Brindos (mentioned in 1083).
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1877
The shore becomes reachable
In 1877 the BAB (Bayonne Anglet Biarritz) railway line of "American railway" (steam tram) type was inaugurated.
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Winter Surfing At Anglet
500px provided description: Surfer getting out of the water, after a cold day riding. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- 500px provided description: Surfer getting out of the water, after a cold day riding
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ORGANISED SPORT
Surfing reads the same coast differently
The Anglet Surf Club is the biggest club in France with over 1,200 members.
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THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Anglet is recorded at 43.507° N, 1.536° W. A surf map fixes a name to one stretch of moving water, but the place changes with tide, swell direction, wind and the shape of the seabed.
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France anglet ophite1 DSC 9758
France, Anglet, seafront, Gold sands beach, ophitic rip-rap. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- France, Anglet, seafront, Gold sands beach, ophitic rip-rap
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
TODAY
Anglet now
The magazine Surf Session is based in Anglet.
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THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
France anglet ophite1 DSC 9758
AOD.EU.ANGLET.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Winter Surfing At Anglet
AOD.EU.ANGLET.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Anglet overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.