Because of its orography, Cambo is a town that can be divided into three parts. In the center it has the church, the streets of Las Terrazas and the route to the public garden. The church dates back to the 17th century and is surrounded by several round Basque stelae. From the viewpoint of Abbé Pierre appears Mount Ursuia and the Robi River in the lower part. On this slope, the remains of the Paleolithic were detected in 1917. The street of the terraces has shaded living areas under the banana trees. Hotels with terraces were now opened for the century due to the economic activity that spread around the exteriors who came with a desire for healing. The Xerri Gorge leads us to the popular Cambo below the Trinketa, the elegant houses of Lapurdi, the Roman bridge, the fresh Latsarri and... the slope of travel. The 80 stairs lead down to Lower Canbo. But although it was called La Montagne during the time of the French Revolution, Cambo does not have more than 70 meters above sea level. On the other side of Lower Cambo, there is a train station between Bayonne and Saint-Jean-de-Garazi. Finally, the third area of Cambo is beyond the village gardens on the Hazparn road. The bathhouses, famous for the 12th century and which today bring thousands of people to Canbora, are as sleepy as they are on the side of the Robi River and on the side of Mount Ursuia. Its corners are as if time did not want to pass. The giant trees of the road that goes from the village to the sanatorium are three centuries old. Jean Fagalde, son of Cambo, Napoleon III.aren was supposed to be a plantation commissioned and paid by the official supplier of the Xocoleta. It’s really worth taking a dip in the huge spa park. Eclectic to the exuberance of the vegetation, the mixture of palm trees and local trees, as well as to the singularity of the architecture. It would seem that we are in the landscape of the film of Tim Burton as much as in the Basque Country.

The Lagoons of Canbo

“The beautiful path adorned with beautiful trees leads you along a sweet slope to the Sanatorium of Good Waters, which is located on the banks of the Robi River, just one kilometer from the interior of the village. Its appearance is simple, but the effectiveness of its waters is praised with reason.” This is what Justin Lalie’s guide to the Pyrenees spas said in 1858. That added praise to the praise: “To want to enjoy the shade, the silence and the spectacular spaces, go to Canbo. There, no trace of luxury in Eaux-Bonnes or Cauterets, no out-of-place garments. You live like that, really, on the farm.” The widow Charles II.aren, king of Spain, Ana-Maria de Neuburg, and all those who followed her, did not follow anything but the famous Middle Ages. In fact, the waters of Canbo are suffering and rich in both iron and magnesium. These help to relieve pain as much as to cure lung diseases and rheumatism.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Cambo was encouraged by the doctor Jacques Grancher. Relying on his cutting-edge knowledge of breast medicine, several Parisians followed his advice and came to rest in the bathing village of Lapurdi. So, writer Edmond Rostand, affected by pleurisy. Rostand would write the Chantecler Theatre in Kanbo. And this year, presumably, the town celebrates the centenary of the staging of this work.

Today’s Kanbo is a space for the recovery of the accessory as a result of the development of Grancher’s idea. “His vocation for well-being and health has ensured significant economic development for two centuries to what was only a peasant village in the Basque Country.” This is the conception of Chaîne Thermale du Soleil, a spa chain that has conquered the exploitation of the suffering waters of Kanbo. The Canadian receives 12,000 customers every year. Along with this, Kanbo has seventeen sanatoriums characterized by heart or lung diseases. In other words, the Health Department is financially competent, with a thousand direct jobs. For this reason, don’t be stoned with stones if you see more than one pulling a cart. These people have their suitcases left at the hotel or the sanatorium. The clipped artifact carries the oxygen bottle.

The Glorious Canbo

“Rented house, well-served snacks, rocking chair on the wooden balcony...”, Léa, dedicated to the pleasures of life, came to Canbo to sweeten the pain of love, once upon a time, in those “Crazy Years” in France. Léa was brought to life by the writer Colette in her novel Chéri, by the way, leaving the mundane atmosphere of the central city of Canbo before the First World War. Although the historiography of literature doesn’t tell you what accommodation Colette was in –at least there was–, it is enough to observe the subtle balconies of the Hotel Saint Laurent on the Terrazas Street to think that it could have been there. Free of imagination.

What wouldn't the people of Cambo have seen in those years? The Rosa-Enia house in the Professeur Grancher Street has something to tell you. In 1898, the Granchers, the singer of the Paris Opera Miss Lafargue, premiered. Jacques Grancher was an assistant to Louis Pasteur. He devoted his entire life to the prevention and cure of tuberculosis. Pneumonia was redirected to Kanbo, which had become one of the main references in French medicine. In 1896 he was a radical Republican councillor of the town house. Then, between 1900 and 1905, by neighborhood. Today, a sanatorium in Kanbo bears his name. And what should the walls of Rosa-Enia say? Well, Grancher, the Cuban lady originally had elephants in the garden. That in addition to having them, they also died there. True or false? Rosa-Enia's answer.

Thus, the Parisian society of high rank began to stop to live in Kanbo. He had built several houses of the “neo-Basque” type of architecture. The most spectacular is undoubtedly the megalomaniac project Arnaga by Edmond Rostand, converted today into an exhibition space. Edmond Rostand lived in Kanbo between 1906 and 1918. He thought of Arnaga as a peaceful island to escape the auspices of literary critics in Paris and achieve his mission, thanks to the copyright granted to him by the success of Cyrano de Bergerac. Arnaga is a wonderful area of the French orchard that is usually parqueted to the Eihera, the pond, the pergola, the fountain, the park and the Versailles. On the road to Bayonne, the Triangle is rooted on the summit next to the farm. He has the fodder of the eyes Ursuia, Hartamendi and Mundarro. The building in Arnaga lasted more than three years. From the architect to the stonecutters, all the actors in the labor chain learned that Rostand was unadaptable. The plans, the fabric of the tapestries to beautify the walls or the appearance of the forged irons were repeatedly rejected by the French Academy. At some point they finished the palace with 40 rooms and so Sarah Bernhardt, Anna de Noailles, Paul Faure and more playwrights, poets and writers of the time could stay. The Arnaga Museum can be visited from April to October. 60,000 people do this every year. It is the third most visited place in the Northern Basque Country, next to the Larrun train and the Maritime Museum of Biarritz.

...and a simpler Kanbo

In the foreign artists who came to Canbo, some prioritized simplicity. One took out the pencil and continued his work of painting that began in Aragon, Andalusia, Madrid or Morocco among the Basque population and almost coinciding with them. That was the painter, illustrator and engraver Pablo Tillac. “Tillac, you have the gift of flexibility and strength. Copying nature is enough for you to get an art-beauty job,” said Ignazio Zuloaga, an Eibetan master. Whether charcoal, coloured or dyed, Tillac left behind a true ethnographic work of hundreds of works on the society of that time. The rest of the village, the market, the ixina of a table in the hostel was the same as the incentive to work. He was always out there waiting to imagine. So much so that the artist born in Angulema began to become Basque. “Papa mini gison chimino”, he would write in one of his works and sign: “Made by Tillac-1928”. And his figures of 37x15 centimeters lead us to the little man with the chapel turned to the right and the cigarette turned to the left, a cozy smile on his lips, put on his chair: “Father mini man monkey”, Cambodian. For many years.

Thus, it would seem that Cambo has no more aliens than the famous people of the place. Far away from that, right. We could mention the Urcodon Marie Argain, a bertsolari created in Kanbo in the 1860s. Piarres Lafitte said, “I wasn’t shy about flirting with men either. I was talking about responsibility, sticking to a lady's size. But a lot of sick people, if they beat him too much: his tongue was bad, and somewhere, ugly!” Finally, who doesn’t know Joseph Apesteguy, the pilot “Chicito de Cambo”? The French champion, buried in the Canbo cemetery, is said to have achieved an impressive reputation in the trenches of the First World War. They say he threw hand bombs at the Germans in Xist...

If you know the reddish chimney on your tour of Canbo from the Abbé Pierre viewpoint across the church up in the sky, think of the chocolate industry in Canbo, it was really great for two centuries. And if you hear the sound of the guitar in an iceberg, there is no doubt that Mixel Labèguerie could be a singer and politician. If it is possible to listen to Isaac Albéniz, the pianist, next to the ardent Camboar. For Cambo makes it clear to those who want to know that there is a multi-echo curation.