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Excerpt from Spain of to-Day, 1890: A Descriptive, Industrial, and Financial Survey of the Peninsula, With a Full Account of the Rio Tinto Mines
The station itself is still smart and well kept, and in the distance it has a background of handsome villas peeping out from the pine-woods but Biar ritz proper is not visible, and is hardly worth a day's labour to hunt up. Just beyond it there are prettier gems of natural beauty.
The next station to Biarritz - Guethary - has of late become a strong rival to it. After twenty minutes of panting up hills and rushing through dark tunnels, the train all at once shoots out on a Shelf of rock, at the foot of which the Atlantic breakers are rolling in with a heavy boom. Two minutes' walk from the station takes you down to the beach. The bay is quite narrow - merely a little corner Of the Bay of Biscay that has cut a sharp dent into the mountain - barrier which holds back the Bay itself. Immediately beyond the sea is lost again, and does not reappear till St Jean de Luz, which, though a much more important place than our little Guethary, is not to be compared with it in picturesqueness. Guethary consists as yet of only about a dozen houses perched on the cliffs two or three of them are hotels and the rest villas. But it is becoming popular as a bathing-place, and its season, from July to September, is every year more prosperous. Parties making a round of the Pyrenees are also beginning to take a few weeks of it on their way to Arcachon.
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