SAINT-JEAN-DE-LUZ

town on Bay of Biscay, Pyrnes-Atlantiques dpartement, Aquitaine rgion, southern France. It lies on the right bank of the Nivelle River, near the Spanish frontier. The town's restored 13th-century Church of St. John the Baptist, in which Louis XIV was married to Marie-Thrse of Austria in 1660, has a single nave in Basque style surrounded by galleries. With its numerous good hotels, casino, promenade, and extensive sands, the town is a fashionable summer and winter resort. It also has a picturesque fishing port with an ancient maritime tradition. Its vessels were the first (1520) to fish off Newfoundland. It is today the most important French tuna-fishing port. Pop. (1990) 13,181.