You can helpexpand this article with text translated fromthe corresponding article in French. (December 2008)Click [show] for important translation instructions.
View a machine-translated version of the French article.
Machine translation, likeDeepL orGoogle Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
Youmust providecopyright attribution in theedit summary accompanying your translation by providing aninterlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary isContent in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Ciboure]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template{{Translated|fr|Ciboure}} to thetalk page.
Ciboure is, like its neighbour, a pretty town with many buildings of the traditionalBasque style ofLapurdi. The 16th-centurychurch of St Vincent has an octagonal tower, Basque galleries and aBaroque altarpiece. Adjacent to Ciboure is the Fort of Socoa, a 15th-century fortress built by Louis XIII.
Ciboure has anoceanic climate (Köppen climate classificationCfb). The average annual temperature in Ciboure is 14.7 °C (58.5 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,483.0 mm (58.39 in) with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 21.0 °C (69.8 °F), and lowest in January, at around 9.3 °C (48.7 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Ciboure was 41.9 °C (107.4 °F) on 30 July 2020; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −12.0 °C (10.4 °F) on 3 February 1956.
Climate data for Socoa, Ciboure (1981–2010 averages, extremes 1921−present)
Florentino Goikoetxea, a Basque smuggler and, during World War II, a guide across the Pyrenees of Allied airmen shot down in occupied Europe and attempting to escape to neutral Spain. Florentino received theGeorge Medal fromGreat Britain and theLegion of Honor from France.