It is located in the former province of Lower Navarre.

However, by this time, the centre of Basque literary production had firmly established itself in the Northern, French provinces of Lower Navarre, Labourd and Soule where it would remain for several centuries.

Gramont is the name of an old French noble family, whose name is connected to the castle of Gramont, Agramont in Spanish, in the French Basque province of Lower Navarre.

The town is also the old capital of the traditional Basque province of Lower Navarre.

In the last decades, petitions have asked for the separation from Béarn and the creation of a Basque département, together with the other two historical Basque provinces of Lower Navarre and Soule.

It is located in the former province of Lower Navarre and historically has a high percentage of inhabitants of Cascarot descent.

Along with the three Basque provinces of Soule, Lower Navarre, and Labourd, as well as small parts of Gascony, it forms the current département of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64).

It lies in the traditional Basque province of Lower Navarre.

It was usual for each new house, particularly in the province of Lower Navarre, to engrave on these stones:

It is and it was thus located in the former province of Lower Navarre.