Béarn is bordered by Basque provinces Soule and Lower Navarre to the west, by Gascony (Landes and Armagnac) to the north, by Bigorre to the east, and by Spain (Aragon) to the south. The name Béarn comes from Beneharnum, the capital city of the Venarni people, destroyed by Vikings by 840. Today, the mainstays of the Béarn area are the petroleum ...