Department guide
Hautes-Pyrénées
Find cities to discover, open their guides and plan a stay around your interests.
Ideas to get you started
Available guides: 2
Ideas to get you started
A selection of city guides to help you choose your base.
Lourdes
Lourdes is closely identified with Catholic pilgrimage, but the shape of the town tells a broader story. The sanctuary occupies the lower town beside the Gave de Pau, a fortress rises from a rocky out…
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Tarbes
Tarbes, the historic capital of Bigorre, lies close to the Pyrenees, yet its identity is not simply mountain-facing. Gardens, cavalry history, religious buildings and public sculpture give the centre …
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Places to Visit in Hautes-Pyrénées
This department-level directory brings together the destinations covered in the Hautes-Pyrénées section of Notre France. It sits within the wider Midi-Pyrénées travel guide and arranges the available visitor information by town. Use the index to open the local page that matches your itinerary instead of working through a single, combined list of places.
Town guides
- Tarbes – Open the dedicated Tarbes page for the places to visit listed under the town.
- Lourdes – Go to the separate Lourdes guide for its recorded visitor sites.
Using the department index
Choose either town above for more focused information. If both destinations are part of your plans, this page provides a straightforward way to move between their guides while keeping the departmental context clear. Tarbes and Lourdes remain separate entries, so each town’s material can be reviewed on its own. Both links stay within the English Hautes-Pyrénées route in the Midi-Pyrénées hierarchy. The parent section provides the wider level for regional browsing.
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