Lescun

Lescun is a picturesque village and commune in the department of southwestern France. Perched at an elevation of approximately 900 metres, it is renowned for its dramatic setting within the breathtaking Cirque de Lescun, often called the…
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  • Type: Village with 171 residents
  • Description: commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
  • Also known as: “64336”
  • Postal code: 64490
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Église Sainte-Eulalie de Lescun and Église Saint-Pierre de Cette.

Church
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is a church.

Church
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is a church, which is situated 4 km east of Lescun.

Church
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is a church, which is situated 4 km east of Lescun.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cette-Eygun and Accous.

Village
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is a commune in the department in south-western . The famous restaurateur Jean Bergez emigrated from to around 1877. is situated 3½ km east of Lescun.

Village
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is a commune in the department in the region in southwestern . is situated 5 km northeast of Lescun.

Village
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is a commune in the department in south-western . Its station on the Pau–Canfranc railway was closed after an accident in 1970. is situated 6 km southeast of Lescun.

Lescun

Latitude
42.9357° or 42° 56′ 9″ north
Longitude
-0.6349° or 0° 38′ 6″ west
Population
171
Elevation
895 metres (2,936 feet)
Open location code
8CJXW9P8+72
Open­Street­Map ID
node 388542481
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6440469
Wiki­data ID
Q179737
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Lescun” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Lescun”
  • Albanian: “Lescun”
  • Aragonese: “Lascun”
  • Aragonese: “Lescun”
  • Arpitan: “Lescun”
  • Asturian: “Lescun”
  • Bambara: “Lescun”
  • Basque: “Lascun”
  • Basque: “Laskun”
  • Basque: “Lescun”
  • Bavarian: “Lescun”
  • Breton: “Lescun”
  • Cajun French: “Lescun”
  • Catalan: “Lascun”
  • Catalan: “Lescun”
  • Cebuano: “Lescun”
  • Chechen: “Лескоьн (Атлантикин ПигӀенейш)”
  • Chechen: “Лескоьн”
  • Chinese: “Lescun”
  • Chinese: “莱斯坎”
  • Chinese: “萊斯坎”
  • Corsican: “Lescun”
  • Croatian: “Lescun”
  • Czech: “Lescun”
  • Danish: “Lescun”
  • Dutch: “Lescun”
  • Esperanto: “Lescun”
  • Estonian: “Lescun”
  • Faroese: “Lescun”
  • Finnish: “Lescun”
  • French: “Cirque de Lescun”
  • French: “Lescun”
  • Friulian: “Lescun”
  • Galician: “Lescun”
  • German: “Lescun”
  • Greek: “Λεσκάν”
  • Hungarian: “Lescun”
  • Icelandic: “Lescun”
  • Ido: “Lescun”
  • Indonesian: “Lescun”
  • Interlingua: “Lescun”
  • Interlingue: “Lescun”
  • Irish: “Lescun”
  • Italian: “Lescun”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Lescun”
  • Japanese: “レスカン圏谷”
  • Kabyle: “Lescun”
  • Kalaallisut: “Lescun”
  • Kazakh: “Lesken”
  • Kazakh: “Лескен”
  • Kazakh: “لەسكەن”
  • Kongo: “Lescun”
  • Kurdish: “Lescun”
  • Ladin: “Lescun”
  • Latin: “Lescun”
  • Latvian: “Lescun”
  • Ligurian: “Lescun”
  • Limburgan: “Lescun”
  • Lithuanian: “Lescun”
  • Low German: “Lescun”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lescun”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Lescun”
  • Malagasy: “Lescun”
  • Malay: “Lescun”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lescun”
  • Minangkabau: “Lescun”
  • Narom: “Lescun”
  • Neapolitan: “Lescun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lescun”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lescun”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lascun (nom refusat)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lascun”
  • Papiamento: “Lescun”
  • Picard: “Lescun”
  • Piemontese: “Lescun”
  • Polish: “Lescun”
  • Portuguese: “Lescun”
  • Prussian: “Lescun”
  • Romagnol: “Lescun”
  • Romanian: “Lescun”
  • Romansh: “Lescun”
  • Russian: “Лескён”
  • Sardinian: “Lescun”
  • Scots: “Lescun”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lescun”
  • Serbian: “Lescun”
  • Sicilian: “Lescun”
  • Slovak: “Lescun”
  • Spanish: “Lescun”
  • Swahili: “Lescun”
  • Swedish: “Lescun”
  • Swiss German: “Lescun”
  • Turkish: “Lescun”
  • Ukrainian: “Лескен”
  • Uzbek: “Lescun”
  • Venetian: “Lescun”
  • Vietnamese: “Lescun”
  • Vlaams: “Lescun”
  • Volapük: “Lescun”
  • Walloon: “Lescun”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lescun”
  • Welsh: “Lescun”
  • Wolof: “Lescun”
  • Zulu: “Lescun”
  • “Lescun”

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