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Subprefecture and commune in Occitania, France
Photo: Florent Pécassou, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bagnères-de-Bigorre is a spa town in the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains partly in the valley of the Adour.
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The Grand Thermal Baths of Bagnères-de-Bigorre are traditionally employed for treatment of rheumatism, nervous afflictions, indigestion, and other maladies. The naturally-sourced waters vary in temperature from 32 to 57 °C (90 to 135 °F).
The Salies Museum of Fine Arts which lies below the oldest part of the thermal baths, the Dauphin baths dating from 1783
Church of Saint John
This former church was built in 1280. After the Revolution, the church was transformed into a theatre. It was destroyed by fire in 1901. The portico and its central portal alone remain. Its portal is listed as a historic monument.
A botanical conservatory specializing in flora of the Pyrenees. The conservatory was established in 1999 to preserve the endemic plant species of the Pyrenees. It is primarily a research establishment but also contains the herbarium collections of Louis Ramond de Carbonnières, Pierrine Gaston-Sacaze, Pierre Le Brun, and Georges Bosc, totalling some 30,000 specimens. Adjacent to it are the Marble Museum, with more than 300 large samples of European marble, and the Muséum Histoire Naturelle Bagnères de Bigorre.
Médous caves
Natural caves accessible to visitors and a place of pilgrimage.
The local Rugby union team playing in "Federale1", the third tier of French rugby.
By car
Access to Bagnères is by the D935 road from Tarbes which passes through the north-eastern tip of the commune and the town before continuing southeast to Beaudéan.
By bus
The TER bus connect Bagnères and Tarbes from the old railway station which is now known as the bus station.
By plane
The nearest airport is Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées Airport some 30 km (19 miles) to the north.
By train
The town doesn't have rail service. The line that once served it has been abandoned and dismantled.
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Tarbes/Lourdes/Pyrénées · Regional · LDE
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