Baztan, the green vale, a ground spoiled for soft mountains, for his forests of beeches, oaks and chestnut-trees, for his meadows, for footpaths serpenteantes that will allow him to discover sceneries that he had never imagined, for the closeness of the sea, will do that his days of rest turn into an experience that will survive in his memory more intensely than the rest of either lived.

Along with an intact natural scenery, Baztan shows numerous attractions: an important architectural patrimony, the survival of ancestral customs, a typical craft, one the only gastronomy, a millennial language, and many other incentives, that you will be able to discover yourself in his walks along the Vale. Baztan is part of the called ones Calm vales of the Country of the Bidasoa.

Baztandarren Biltzarra is the holiday more popular of celebrated in the Vale of Baztán since in her neighbors take part of all the localities.

The municipality of Baztan, placed in the North of Navarre, is, with his 377 square kilometers, the most extensive municipality of the Community Statutory. Into the Vale, which forms only one municipal term, the places integrate of: Almandoz, Aniz, Apaioa, Berroeta, Ziga, Oronoz, Arraioz, Irurita, Lekaroz, Gartzain, Elizondo, Elbete, Arizkun, Azpilkueta, Erratzu and Amaiur-Maya.

 The population of Vale of approximately 8.000 inhabitants gathers together in the fifteen Mentioned places. Every Place is formed by a downtown and numerous hamlets, which well can gather together in Quarters or be completely spread, what gives us idea of dispersion of the population (Text extracted from the official page of vale)