L'unité urbaine de Bayonne (partie française) est une unité urbaine internationale dont la partie française s'étend sur deux départements, les Pyrénées-Atlantiques et les Landes. Elle est centrée sur les communes d'Anglet et de Bayonne, sous-préfecture du département des Pyrénées-Atlantiques au cœur de la deuxième unité urbaine de la région Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Cette conurbation urbaine qui borde l'océan Atlantique s'étend au-delà de la frontière avec l'Espagne dans la comarque de Basse Bidassoa avec les villes d'Irun et Fontarrabie.
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The Hôtel de Ville is a municipal building in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, southwest France, standing on the Avenue du Maréchal Leclerc. The building is a mixed use complex which also accommodates the Michel Portal Theatre.
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The Musée Bonnat-Helleu is an art museum in Bayonne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The museum was created in 1901 when Bayonne-born painter Léon Bonnat gave his extensive personal collections of art – notably an exceptional drawing collection – as well as many of his paintings to the City of Bayonne. Subsequent donors enriched the collections of the Bonnat Museum with major gifts in 1936, 1989, 1997 and 2010, making its holdings one of the largest collections of art in southern France.
The "Helleu" in its name refers to Paul César Helleu. The museum owns 181 works by Helleu, from a gift in 1989 and then a legacy in 2010 from Paulette Howard-Johnston, daughter of Helleu, and a legacy in 1997 from Ghislaine de Kermaingant.
The Museum was closed to the public for extensive renovation in April 2011. An architectural project to double the size of the museum began in early 2018, and it reopened in November 2025.
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Château-Vieux, also known as the Old Castle of Bayonne, is a castle in the commune of Bayonne, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France. The castle has been rebuilt many times over the centuries.
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The Jardin botanique de Bayonne, also known as the Jardin botanique des Remparts, is a botanical garden located at the Avenue du 11 Novembre and Allée de Tarride, Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. It is open Tuesday through Saturday in the warmer months; admission is free.
The botanical garden was established in the late 1990s atop an existing 7-metre high bastion by Vauban, within the city's protected sector between its cathedral and ramparts, and overlooking its war memorial. It contains about 1,000 taxa arranged in 11 groupings, including bamboos, a fine collection of Japanese maples, fountain, waterfall, pond, Japanese bridge, and walkways created from recycled materials.
It is served by free shuttle bus of the city center line at the stop number 7. Entry is free but no dogs allowed from Tuesday to Saturday from middle of April to middle of October, from 9:30 to 12:00 and from 14.00 to 18.00.
Par sa population, l'unité urbaine de Bayonne (partie française) fait partie des grandes agglomérations de la France, se situant au 25e rang national.