Biarritz Webcam - Live Central Beach View

PRLog (Press Release) - Jul 30, 2010 -
Live views form beaches are always among the most popular and sought after webcam views, and the live scene form the busy central beach in the famous French resort of Biarritz is no exception.

2010 has been a busy year for the resort so far, with tourist numbers up on previous years, and the web cam shows a very busy beach area:

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Location information:

Vikings who invaded Gascony in 840 settled in Biarritz, which later participated in the whaling trade. Biarritz is a Basque name with locative suffix -itz attested Bearriz in 1170, Bearids in 1186, Bearritz in 1249. The Scandinavians settled in the area above the Gardague Beach. It has been suggested (disputedly) that the remaining Vikings became "Agots," a social group in Gascony not allowed to mix with the population at large. Segregation among these communities there were many in Gascony and Navarra disappeared only in the early 20th century.

Biarritz has long made its fortune from the sea: as a whaling settlement from the twelfth century onwards, in the 18th century doctors recommended that the ocean at Biarritz had therapeutic properties, inspiring patients to make pilgrimages to the beach for alleged cures for their ailments.