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The Pic du Jer overlooks Lourdes, in the Hautes-Pyrénées, and offers a remarkable viewpoint. A century-old funicular climbs there in a few minutes, to about 1,000 metres.
At the top, a footpath leads to the observatory and a viewpoint with a 360-degree view over Lourdes, Tarbes, Pau, the Argelès-Gazost valley and the Pyrenean peaks.
Lourdes wax museum: 18 scenes and over 100 life-size figures tell the story of Christ and of Bernadette Soubirous.
In a lane of the upper town, Rue des Petits Fossés, stands a sad grey old building: the former prison.
Built on a rocky peak, it dominates the town of Lourdes and the entrance to the seven valleys of the Lavedan.
Built on the site of the Marian apparitions of 1858, this sanctuary is one of the most visited places of pilgrimage in the world, welcoming about 6 million people every year.
A small mountain town in the Hautes-Pyrénées, Lourdes welcomes nearly 6 million visitors a year from more than 140 countries.
An aquarium devoted to freshwater fish, from Pyrenean mountain streams to the Adour estuary, with around fifteen tanks.