Hondarribia ("sand river" in Basque, formerly known by its Spanish adaptation Fuenterrabía) is a town situated on the east shore of Bidasoa River's mouth, in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country. The town has an ancient old quartier with walls and a castle. Hondarribia also has a beach and a mountain called Jaizkibel. Population 2005: 15700 habtants $/cápita:25000USD$ Guipúzcoa province Guipúzcoa (Basque Gipuzkoa, Spanish Guipúzcoa, in English sometimes as Guipuscoa) is a province of northern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. ... Edit: It is important to underline that there has never been anything even similar to a basque state or independent country whatsoever. ...
Fuenterrabia stands on the slope of a hill on the left bank of the river Bidassoa, and near the point where its estuary begins.
After a severe siege, Fuenterrabia surrendered to the duke of Berwick and his French troops in 1719; and in 1794 it again fell into the hands of the French, who so dismantled it that it has never since been reckoned by the Spaniards among their fortified places.
It was by the ford opposite Fuenterrabia that the duke of Wellington, on the 8th of October 1813, successfully forced a passage into France in the face of an opposing army commanded by Marshal Soult.
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