Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle (, literally ''Saint-Pée on Nivelle''; ; )SENPERE
Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia is a village and a commune in the

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. The village is scattered in several neighbourhoods, with the main nucleus located at a crossroads. As its name in French conveys, the village is located on the river Nivelle. The village is renowned for the " Herri Urrats" festival in support of the Basque-language schools ('' ikastolak'') held in May on a yearly basis at the Lake of Senpere since the early 1980s. Tens of thousands of people turn out. It is located in the

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Bayonne Bayonne () is a city in southwestern France near the France–Spain border, Spanish border. It is a communes of France, commune and one of two subprefectures in France, subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques departments of France, departm ...

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