Surfing arrived in Europe on this beach in the 1950s, and it remains the most elegant place on the continent to fall off a longboard — green waves rolling in under Belle Époque villas, with the Pyrenees on the horizon. It disappears at high tide, so lessons run around low water. The evening scene, all wet hair and citron pressé on the steps, is half the appeal.
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