- Ustaritz consists of four main areas:
- The village, with all along the main street with its old houses typical half-timbered finely crafted testament to the richness of their original occupants.
- Hiribéhère, west of the Borough, which converge in the castles and mansions of the nineteenth.
- Hérauritz and Arrauntz, residential hamlets of more recent development.
- History:
- This was once a river port on the Nive, leaving the Mule Road to Ainhoa, the Baztan and Pamplona.
- About 1170, Arnaud, Viscount Labourd, expelled from Bayonne by Richard the Lionheart, stood at Castle Ustaritz (current mayor). Ustaritz becomes the capital of Labourd Biltzar seat, Assembly Democratic community, attended by representatives of the parishes, the seat of the court bailiff and the bailiff, (King's representative).
- Traders and people of color constituted the bourgeoisie who built mansions of the 17th and 18th centuries and which has produced the Brothers Garat, deputies to the Estates General, which was a Senator and read his death sentence to Louis XVI.
- Ustaritz was revived in the 19th century by the Basques "American" who made his fortune in America and returning to the Basque Country. Ustaritz guard, as such, evidence of its former glory by the presence, always visible, architectural monuments such as the baroque palaces of the late 19th century with exotic names: Lota, Valparaiso, La Guadeloupe, Talcahuano and townhouses as: Argentina, Nevada ...
