The country lane is a geographic object almost forgotten today. Even if it forms a thematic field almost non-exploited and non problematised, the country lane is reemerging as a new catalyst to understand relations between culture and nature. The interest for the country lane is recently renewed by a double tendancy towards its revalorisation, functionnaly with the hiking tourism, culturally with the revival of walking related to the sense of place and the renewal of sensitivity towards "ordinary" landscapes. Basque country is a space which knows a very long tradition in country lanes organisation and maintenance which are structuring social and cultural life. Country lane practice reveals a deep knowledge of places and a real geographic wisdom. Touristification of country lanes is a form of identity attachment and expression of a culture completeness
