Lourdes
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.
- Type: Town with 13,500 residents
- Description: commune in Hautes-Pyrénées, France
- Also known as: “Lapurdum”, “Lurdo”, “Λουρντ”, “لوردز”, and “塔布-盧爾德-庇里牛斯機場”
- Postal code: 65100
Places of Interest
Highlights: Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes and Massabielle Grotto.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aspin-en-Lavedan and Jarret.
Aspin-en-Lavedan
Village
Lourdes
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Argelès-Gazost, Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie, France, Europe
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Latitude
43.0941° or 43° 5′ 39″ north
Longitude
-0.0465° or 0° 2′ 47″ west
Population
13,500
Elevation
409 metres (1,342 feet)
Name during the French Revolution
“La Montagne”
UN/LOCODE
FR LDE
Open location code
8CMX3XV3+JC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Lourdes” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Lourdes”
- Albanian: “Lourdes”
- Arabic: “لورد”
- Aragonese: “Lorda”
- Arpitan: “Lourdes”
- Asturian: “Lourdes”
- Bambara: “Lourdes”
- Basque: “Lurda”
- Bavarian: “Lourdes”
- Belarusian: “Лурд”
- Belarusian: “Люрд”
- Bishnupriya: “লোউর্ডেস”
- Breton: “Lourd”
- Buginese: “Lourdes”
- Bulgarian: “Лурд”
- Cajun French: “Lourdes”
- Catalan: “Lorda”
- Cebuano: “Lourdes”
- Chechen: “ЛугӀд”
- Chinese: “卢尔德”
- Chinese: “盧爾德”
- Chinese: “露德”
- Chuvash: “Лурд”
- Corsican: “Lourdes”
- Croatian: “Lourdes”
- Czech: “Lurdy”
- Danish: “Lourdes”
- Dutch: “Lourdes”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لورد”
- Esperanto: “Lourdes”
- Estonian: “Lourdes”
- Faroese: “Lourdes”
- Finnish: “Lourdes”
- French: “Lourdes”
- Friulian: “Lourdes”
- Galician: “Lourdes”
- German: “Lourdes”
- Greek: “Λούρδη”
- Hebrew: “לורד”
- Hungarian: “Lourdes”
- Icelandic: “Lourdes”
- Ido: “Lourdes”
- Indonesian: “Lourdes”
- Interlingua: “Lourdes”
- Interlingue: “Lourdes”
- Irish: “Lourdes”
- Italian: “Lourdes”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Lourdes”
- Japanese: “ルルド”
- Javanese: “Lourdes”
- Jèrriais: “Lourdes”
- Kabyle: “Lourdes”
- Kalaallisut: “Lourdes”
- Kinaray-A: “Lorda”
- Kongo: “Lourdes”
- Korean: “루르드”
- Ladin: “Lourdes”
- Latin: “Lorda”
- Latvian: “Lurda”
- Ligurian: “Lourdes”
- Limburgan: “Loerd”
- Limburgan: “Lourdes”
- Lithuanian: “Lurdas”
- Low German: “Lourdes”
- Luxembourgish: “Lourdes”
- Macedonian: “Лурд”
- Mainfränkisch: “Lourdes”
- Malagasy: “Lourdes”
- Malay: “Lourdes”
- Maltese: “Lourdes”
- Mazanderani: “لووردس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lourdes”
- Minangkabau: “Lourdes”
- Neapolitan: “Lourdes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lourdes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lourdes”
- Norwegian: “Lourdes”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lorda”
- Papiamento: “Lourdes”
- Persian: “لورد”
- Persian: “لوردس”
- Picard: “Lourdes”
- Piemontese: “Lourdes”
- Polish: “Lourdes”
- Portuguese: “Lourdes”
- Prussian: “Lourdes”
- Romagnol: “Lourdes”
- Romanian: “Lourdes”
- Romansh: “Lourdes”
- Russian: “Лурд”
- Sardinian: “Lourdes”
- Scots: “Lourdes”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Lourdes”
- Serbian: “Lourdes”
- Serbian: “Лурд”
- Sicilian: “Lourdes”
- Sinhala: “ලූර්දු”
- Slovak: “Lurdy”
- Slovenian: “Lurd”
- South Azerbaijani: “لوردس”
- Spanish: “Lourdes”
- Swahili: “Lourdes”
- Swedish: “Lourdes”
- Swiss German: “Lourdes”
- Tagalog: “Lourdes”
- Tamil: “லூர்து நகர்”
- Tatar: “Лурд”
- Turkish: “Lourdes”
- Ukrainian: “Лурд”
- Urdu: “لورڈیس”
- Venetian: “Lourdes”
- Vietnamese: “Lộ Đức”
- Vietnamese: “Lourdes”
- Vlaams: “Lourdes”
- Volapük: “Lourdes”
- Walloon: “Lourdes”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lourdes”
- Welsh: “Lourdes”
- Western Frisian: “Loerdes”
- Western Frisian: “Lourdes”
- Wolof: “Lourdes”
- Wu Chinese: “卢尔德”
- Yue Chinese: “露德”
- Zulu: “Lourdes”
- “Lourdes”
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