Artaga
A very varied hike on the heights of Saint-Pierre-d'Irube allows you to learn more about the trees and plants of the cool and humid Artague valley, a small amazon in the Basque Country, and to enjoy wide viewpoints once the light returns to the hills
Even before you put your bag on your back, the access to this walk already reveals a historical dimension since you take the D22, an ancient Roman secondary road to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, which became the route des Cimes under the First Empire, trodden by Napoleonic armies. Once equipped, a two-faceted walk awaits you. The first part dares a foray into the cool and humid Artague* valley, where you have the chance to discover a great variety of plants, judiciously presented by didactic panels: fragon, dogwood, ash, willow, borage, ferns, hazel trees, oaks, maples, elms, alders, wild cherry trees... All this punctuated by small waterfalls and other places of freshness, before going up on the panoramic hills of the second part of the hike.
(*) Please refrain from walking the day after heavy rains
