Labassère

Labassère is a common French, located in the department of the Hautes-Pyrénées and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

Geography

History

The history of the village is related to two economic activities, being added again to the agricultural activity.

The slate of Labassère

Labassère owes its name with the material which made its fame: the slate or " labasse" in Occitan. One exploits it there as of the 14th century. Eugene Viollet the Duke uses it for the restoration of the Cité of Carcassonne which begins in 1853. The roofs of the Castle of Pau and the Cathédrale Notre-Dame of Amiens are still covered with it.

The water of Labassère

In 1800, the priest of the village, is the Pédefer abbot, discovers a sulfur spring whose water is presented such favourable with the cure of certain diseases. Sold with Bagnères-with-Bigorre, it acquires a regional fame very quickly. Its exploitation stops in 1991.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • the church , to Gothic style, goes back, under its current form, of the end of the 19th century.

  • ruins of a tower called " Castet" dominates the village. It was used as optical Télégraphe.

Personalities related to the commune

  • the abbot Pédefer having discovered the sulfur spring of the village, a bust was set up in its honor in front of the town hall in 1913.

See too

  • Common of the Hautes-Pyrénées

External bonds

  • Discover old photographs of the village of Labassère on this site
  • the sulfur spring of Labassère
  • Labassère on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Labassère on the site of INSEE
  • Labassère on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Labassère on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plan on Labassère on Mapquest

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