Forest village located 20 minutes from the beaches, Lesperon is a stopping place for tourists but also for pilgrims going to Saint Jacques de Compostela.
In place names, this is the form of a relief. A spur of the Germanic sporozoites is a promontory, and Lesperon is built on a hill protected by the brook, the Vignacq. Besides the original name was Araast of arx, citadel, fortified place. It existed in the Middle Ages the church "sanctus Petrus Arrast", lost since. The first mention of Lesperon dated April 6, 1273: "Arnoldus of Lesperon of parrochia, in Borno," acknowledges having certain fees to King Edward of England. In 1305, Amanieu Albret Parish Lesperon bought and built a castle which became a haven where you fleeced the pilgrims and passers. Edward 2nd of England reported the same dangerous seneschal of Gascony Oliver Ingham. There remain the names "Tire-jacket", "Tire-pants". Lesperon was an important spur route to Saint Jacques de Compostela and a stop from where you can go "either through Navarre and Roncesvalles, or by the Biscay". Today is a place called "Navarre". The town lived in the forest industry wood and resin products.
