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Charming village. Worth a visit

magnificent viewpoint and possibility of visiting a nice museum

Orthez is a town with some nice old buildings.

Here the famous Lady of Brassempouy was discovered in 1894, today attested as the first human face.

To see: the Benedictine abbey, the convent, the Jacobins museum, the Butte de Morlane and its arenas.

The classified capitals of the Saint-Girons Crypt are a jewel of the 12th century.

In Pimbo, the church stands on a hillside in the Gabas valley on the pilgrims’ Jacobean route.

It was in 1732 that “a Royal earthenware factory” was established in the small town of Samadet, which produced earthenware with rich and colorful decorations for more than 100 years. The factory will employ a workforce with specialized know-how and its production will be widely distributed, notably through the port of Bayonne. But, in 1838, the Manufacture could not resist the competition and closed its doors. The museum, created in 1968 by the Earthenware Committee and given to the Department in 1998, preserves the memory of this epic; it tells the history of Samadet earthenware and that of tableware.