Barèges

Barèges (in Gascon Occitan Barètge ) is a common French, located in the department of the Hautes-Pyrénées and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

Geography

Traditional small village of mountain of the the French Pyrenees (altitude 1250 m), located in the middle of the Valley of Batsus, and is stretched along the Gave of Bastan. Ski station and Thermal spa of reputation, with the foot of the Collar of Tourmalet and the Peak of the South, Barèges combines the charm of a village which knew to remain authentic and a nature of exception with the greatest skiable field: " the field of Tourmalet".

History

It owes its name with Madam de Maintenon which during its stay with the borough of the Baths, went back its letters to “Barèges” whereas this name belonged to all the valley of Barège, to the political direction: the valley of the gave of Bastan and that of the Gave de Gavarnie.

Administratively, the borough of the Baths was a district of the village of Betpouey, located downstream. It is freed from this supervision in 1946, because the interests of Betpouey and those tourist of Barèges had evil to agree. Moreover the distance of the village especially made all administrative tasks difficult in winter because of the new activities due to the rise of the winter sports.

The mountain small village, crossed by the Trunk road, called of the Pyrenees, is built around its thermal springs. No one does not know when water of Barèges was discovered. The tradition wants that they are the shepherds the first users. They had noticed that the sick or wounded Brebis came to be soaked in this Eau hot and sulfurous.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Hautes-Pyrénées

External bonds

Barèges on the site of the national geographical Institute
Barèges on the site of INSEE
Barèges on the site of Quid
Localization of Barèges on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Barèges on Mapquest

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