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When you disembark from the ferry in Port aux Basques, the first contact you have with this fishermen's village with its small colored wooden houses, clinging to the rocks of the shore, is already a disorientation: the sky is leaden, the cliffs are gray, the landscape is desolate and rocky, everything indicates a rough, even hostile environment. That said, you will find a small and very welcoming community of a few thousand souls. Port aux Basques owes its name to the whale hunters who came from the Basque Country. Knowing that they came to settle here at the beginning of the 16th century, Port aux Basques can therefore claim to be one of the oldest cities in America.