Hautes-Pyrénées
Hautes-Pyrénées is in Occitanie. The area is known for its hot springs, most notably Cauterets, Luz-Saint-Sauveur and Bagnères-de-Bigorre. There are popular ski resorts such as Barèges-La Mongie, Gavarnie, Luz-Ardiden, Cauterets, Hautacam, Piau-Engaly and Saint-Lary-Soulan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Lourdes and Tarbes.
Lourdes
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Lourdes is a town in the Hautes-Pyrénées of France. It is a global centre of Marian pilgrimage, receiving hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. Many Catholics believe that the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, appeared 18 times at the Grotto to a young girl, Saint Bernadette Soubirous.
Tarbes
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Tarbes is a town in the Hautes-Pyrénées of France. From Tarbes, you can explore the foothills and the mountains of the central Pyrenees. It has 44,000 inhabitants.
Bagnères-de-Bigorre
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Bagnères-de-Bigorre is a spa town in the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains partly in the valley of the Adour. Like most thermal cities, Bagnères-de-Bigorre has a casino.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Pyrénées National Park.
Pyrénées National Park
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Pyrénées National Park is a French national park in the departments of Hautes-Pyrénées and Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Hautes-Pyrénées
- Type: department of France with 231,000 residents
- Description: French department
- Also known as: “Département des Hautes-Pyrénées” and “Hautes-Pyrenees”
- Neighbors: Gers, Haute-Garonne, and Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Location: Occitanie, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Hautes-Pyrénées” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Albanian: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Arabic: “البرانس العليا”
- Arabic: “البرانيس العليا”
- Aragonese: “Altos Pireneus”
- Armenian: “Վերին Պիրենեյներ”
- Arpitan: “Hôts-Pirènês”
- Azerbaijani: “Yuxarı Pireney”
- Basque: “Pirinio Garaiak”
- Belarusian: “Верхнія Пірэнеі”
- Belarusian: “Верхнія Пірэнэі”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Верхнія Пірэнеі”
- Belarusian: “Пірэнеі Верхнія”
- Bengali: “হাউতেস পায়রেন্স”
- Breton: “Pireneoù-Uhel”
- Bulgarian: “От Пирене”
- Catalan: “Alts Pirineus”
- Cebuano: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Chechen: “Лакха ПигӀенейш”
- Chinese: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Chinese: “上比利牛斯”
- Chinese: “上比利牛斯省”
- Chuvash: “Тури Пиреней”
- Czech: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Dagbani: “Alts Pirineus”
- Danish: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Dutch: “Hautes-Pyrenees”
- Dutch: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Egyptian Arabic: “البرانيس العليا”
- Esperanto: “Altaj Pireneoj”
- Esperanto: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Estonian: “Hautes-Pyrénées’ departemang”
- Estonian: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Finnish: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- French: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Galician: “Altos Pireneos”
- Georgian: “ზემო პირენეები”
- German: “Département Hautes-Pyrénées”
- German: “FR-65”
- German: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Greek: “Άνω Πυρηναία”
- Gujarati: “હોટ્સ-પિરેનેસ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sông Pyrénées-sén”
- Hebrew: “אוט-פירנה”
- Hebrew: “הפירנאים העליונים”
- Hindi: “ओट्स-पायरेनीज़”
- Hungarian: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Indonesian: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Interlingua: “Departimento Hautes-Pyrenees”
- Irish: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Italian: “Alti Pirenei”
- Japanese: “オート＝ピレネー県”
- Kannada: “ಹೌಟೆಸ್-ಪೈರಿನೀಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Жоғарғы Пиреней”
- Kongo: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Korean: “오트피레네주”
- Ladin: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Ladino: “Hautes Pyrénées”
- Latin: “Pyrenaei superiores”
- Latin: “Pyrenaeus Superior”
- Latvian: “Augšpireneji”
- Limburgan: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Lithuanian: “Aukštutiniai Pirėnai”
- Lombard: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Low German: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Luxembourgish: “Departement Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Macedonian: “Горни Пиринеи”
- Malagasy: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Malay: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Marathi: “ऑत-पिरेने”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Northern Frisian: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Northern Sami: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Norwegian: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Hauts Pirenèus”
- Ossetian: “Уæллаг Пиренейтæ”
- Pampanga: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Persian: “اوپیرنه”
- Persian: “اوت-پیرنه”
- Piemontese: “Àut Pirené”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd j’Àut Pirené”
- Polish: “Pireneje Wysokie”
- Portuguese: “Altos Pireneus”
- Portuguese: “Altos Pirenéus”
- Portuguese: “Altos Pirineus”
- Portuguese: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Romanian: “departamentul Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Romanian: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Russian: “Верхние Пиренеи”
- Scots: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Serbian: “Високи Пиринеји”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Sinhala: “හෞටිස්-පයිරෙනිස්”
- Slovak: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Slovenian: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Spanish: “Altos Pirineos”
- Swahili: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Swedish: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Пиренеи Боло”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Пиренеи Верхние”
- Tamil: “ஹூட்ஸ் -பெயரெனீஸ்”
- Telugu: “హాట్స్ పైరెనీస్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดโอต-ปีเรเน”
- Tosk Albanian: “Département Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Turkish: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Ukrainian: “Верхні Піренеї”
- Urdu: “بالائی-پیرینے”
- Venetian: “Alti Pirenei”
- Vietnamese: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Vietnamese: “Thượng Phì Nhiêu”
- Vlaams: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Volapük: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Welsh: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Western Frisian: “Hautes-Pyrénées”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع اوٹ پیرینیز”
- Wu Chinese: “上比利牛斯省”
- Yue Chinese: “上比利牛斯”
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