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Tourism Tarbes
Located in the heart of the Hautes-Pyrenees, the town of Tarbes is offrering a beautiful scenery and offers many activities such as skiing, hiking, walks in the garden Massey and its museum. You can also visit the beautiful Cathedral of the Sede, the Church of St. John and the birthplace of Marshal Foch.
The existence of the city dates back to Tarbes in the third century BC. She suffered of barbarian invasions in the fifth and sixth centuries and also the religious wars during the sixteenth century. The town experienced a population boom in the eighteenth. The city is expanding with new neighborhoods and developed his craft and his business. In 1806, Napoleon restored the first National Stud and from crosses between horses, gave birth to the Anglo-Arab.
The town of Tarbes plays an important role during the first and second world wars producing artillery and remains a place of resistance. You can find out more at the Museum of Resistance and Deportation
Sights in Tarbes
- Museum and garden Massey
- Natioanl haras
- Resistance museum
- Saint-Jean church
- Sede's cathedral
- The birthplace of Marshal Foch
Museums and monuments to visit
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La maison natale du Maréchal FochThe birthplace of Marshal Foch, located in the heart of Tarbes is the house where grew during the first 12 years of his life Ferdinand Foch. This house, which is now a museum since 1951, been a ...
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Le musée de la RésistanceThe Resistance Museum was invented by 18 local associations. The collections that are found there dedant memories preserved and collected by the protagonists themselves. Now, the museum develops ...
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Musée MasseyMassey Museum is an art and history museum located in Tarbes in the Hautes-Pyrénées. Museum reopened in 2012, on more than 1,000 m2, after a complete renovation of the building and the ...
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Musée de la Déportation et de la résistanceRemarkable for its original brick and stone façade, the Museum of Deportation and Resistance of the city of Tarbes allows, through its collections, to understand the resistance networks of the ...
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Château de MontanerClassified as historical monuments, the castle Montaner dominates the Pyrenees and the plain of the Adour. Built in the fourteenth century, the building served to protect the borders of Béarn ...
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Le château de GardèresForgotten, abandoned the castle of Gardères saw a renaissance, thanks to the help of his friends and donors grouped in the Association GARDERES 1723. Recently, he began his fourth phase of work ...
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La Maison Paternelle Sainte-BernadetteBishop of Tarbes gave to Bernadette Soubirous' father. The latter lived in this house from 1858 to 1860. It is in this house, formerly known as "Moulin Lacadé" that are in the ...
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Eglise du Sacrée CoeurAfter the Apparitions of 1858, the parish priest Peyramale decided to build a new parish church, larger than the church of Saint-Pierre that Bernadette had known. In 1875, he began work. Interrupted ...
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Le CachotThe dungeon is located in the rue des Petits Fosses, the bottom of a former prison Lourdes. It is in this room of 16 m² that Soubirous lived from autumn 1856 to autumn 1858. It is here that ...
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La Tour de GarnavieRemains of the fortifications protecting Lourdes in the Middle Ages: the Garnavie Tower and the Fortified Castle. The Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem occupied this area around the 12th century. ...
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Château fort de LourdesIts origin dates back to Roman times, then he was besieged in 778 by Charlemagne and became the residence of the Counts of Bigorre in the eleventh century and twelfth century. In the thirteenth ...
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Le Château Fort et son Musée PyrénéensBuilt on a rocky outcrop, as if levitating between heaven and earth, the Pyrenean Castle-Museum of Lourdes majestically dominates the Marian city. With more than a thousand years of history, this ...
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Abbaye bénédictine de Saint Sever de RustanThe Abbey was founded around the year 800 by the Benedictines on the banks of the Arros . It will promote the birth of a fortified town which quickly became the capital of Rustan . Witness a ...
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Basilique Notre-Dame du RosaireThe Basilica of our Lady of the Rosary (French: Notre Dame du Rosaire de Lourdes) is a Roman Catholic church and minor within the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France. Its main theme is a ...
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Château de SoumIn 1791, there was only one Justice of the Peace for the whole canton of Lourdes. Previously, in 1790, the General Council of the Commune of Lourdes informed the National Assembly that the prisons of ...
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