Tarbes (in Gascon Occitan : Tarba ) is a common French, located in the department of the Hautes-Pyrénées of which it is the prefecture and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

Its inhabitants is called Tarbais.

Geography

Tarbes is located on the Adour at 156 km at the west of Toulouse. It is located at an altitude of 304 meters.

Name

The city is named for the first time at Ve sièclesource manquante--> like Civitas Turba ubi castrum Bigorra . It was an important city of the Novempopulanie. Gregoire de Tours at the 6th century names it Talvam vicum . With the Moyen-âge it was called Tarbe (1214), Tursa , Tarvia (1284) or Tarbia . Not to confuse with the Tarbelles, whose capital was Dax.

History

August 1st

Economy

Tarbes is the second large industrial core of the Midday-Pyrenees behind Toulouse.

Socata, subsidiary of EADS, manufactures there Avion S of businesses and Tourisme of which TBM 700 and range of TB, for example the TB 20.

- Tarbes is the seat of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Tarbes and of the Hautes-Pyrénées. It manages the Airport of the Tarbes-Door-Pyrenees, the aerodrome of Tarbes-Laloubère, the consular Center of formation, the Kennedy Center and Autoport of the Pyrenees.

- Aerospace Valley constitutes the first world Pole of competitiveness in the fields of the Aéronautique, the space and the embarked Systèmes. Gathering structures located in the areas the Midday-Pyrenees and Aquitanian Tarbes accommodates project P.A.M.E.L.A (Process for Advanced Management off End-of-Life off Aircraft), this industrial project is based on the déconstruction of planes.

main actors of this project:

  • AIRBUS
  • SITA, in charge of waste and the recycling processing of materials within the group SUEZ
  • Sogerma, a subsidiary company of EADS specialized in aeronautical maintenance
  • the Joint Research Center EADS-CCR.

Administration

Successive mayors

The municipal history of Tarbes under Ve République was marked by several alternations.

At the time of the elections of 1959, the outgoing socialist mayor, Marcel Billières, are victim of the good behavior of the Communist party but especially of pushed line, which manages to seize the town hall with the election of Paul Boyrie. This last is comfortably re-elected in 1965 (58,4%) and 1971 (55,2%). But its sudden death at a few weeks of the elections of 1977 sows confusion in the rows of the outgoing majority.

At the time of this poll, the Communist Paul Chastellain carries it as of the first turn (50,6%), with the head of a list of union of the left. He is re-elected in 1983 with 54,8% vis-a-vis Jean Journé (UDF-RPR), but is carried by an heart attack during the examination. Raymond Erraçarret (PCF) is then elected mayor by the municipal council. The new municipal official finds his armchair in 1989 with 54,1% vis-a-vis Jean Journé (UDF-RPR), then in a way more skimped (51,3%) in 1995, vis-a-vis Gerard Trémège (UDF-RPR).

2001 mark a new alternation then: Gerard Trémège, after a fusion of the lists DL-UDF and RPR, becomes mayor with 50,1% of the votes.

Intercommunality

See also: Large Tarbes

Born from the Community of communes of the agglomeration tarbaise created in 1995, the Large Tarbes or the Community of agglomeration of Large Tarbes enjoys competences touching with transport, with the travelling entertainers, the culture, the sports, the environment, the university pole and the policy of the city.

Demography

The urban surface tarbaise is the second of the Midday-Pyrenees area after Toulouse, with 110.000 inhabitants.

Famous characters

Tourist monuments and places

Remarkable buildings and public places

  • Gone of the General Leclerc
  • Fountain of the Love (19th century)
  • monumental Fountain of the Four Valleys (19th century)
  • Market Marcadieu of the type Baltard (19th century)
  • National stud farm of Tarbes (19th century)
  • Hospital of Ayguerote (17th century)
  • Hotel of Lighter (17th century)
  • Town hall (beginning 20th century)
  • Garden Massey (19th century)
  • College Théophile Gautier (old Imperial College) (17th-19th century)
  • Native house of Bertrand Barère
  • Native house of Théophile Gautier
  • Native house of the marshal Foch
  • Law courts (19th century)
  • Park Beautiful-Air
  • Park Paul Chastellain
  • Park of the Young elm
  • Place of Verdun
  • Prefecture (old Evêché) (17th century)
  • District Larrey (19th century)
  • District Soult (19th century)
  • Theater of the Innovations

Religious buildings

  • Notre-Dame Cathedral of Sède (12th with 18th)

  • Church Midsummer's Day (15th with 19th)
  • Church Holy-Therese (15th with 19th)
  • Church Holy-Anne
  • Church Saint-Anthony
  • Church Saint Martin's day , of contemporary architecture.
  • Church Holy-Bernadette , also of contemporary architecture.
  • Church Saint-Vincent-of-Paul , of pyramidal form.
  • Chapelle of Ayguerote (17th)
  • the Carmel was founded in 1870. Today property of the town of Tarbes, its vault became a place of exposures.
  • Founded in 1986, the orthodoxe Église Serb Notre-Dame Source of Life is decorated splendid murals.
  • In 2005, was deposited the first stone of the Mosquée Omar ibn Al-Khattab .

Museums

  • Museum Massey: International museum of the Hussards and Musée of the Art schools
  • Museum of the Deportation and the resistance, inaugurated in 1989
  • Native house of the marshal Foch
  • Carmel (showroom)

Twinnings

Tarbes has two twinned cities:

Sport

Sporting city, Tarbes is represented with high level by:
  • female Basketball:
    • Tarbes Gespe Bigorre, evolving/moving in the elite LFB (several times vice-champion of France) and European since 1993 (winner of the Cut of Europe Ronchetti in 1996);

  • Friendly Fencing

    • Tarbaise d' Escrime, 9 times champions of France by team to the saber (last in 2006).

  • Tennis:

    • the tournament of the Small Aces, the championship of the semi-official world of the 13-14 years, is an international tennis tournament being held each year since 1982 in Tarbes, most important in this category of age (tiny).

See too

Related articles

  • Common Hautes-Pyrénées

  • Bigorre
  • of the Hautes-Pyrénées
  • List of the bishops of Tarbes
  • National stud farms
  • Socata

External bonds

  • Official site of the city
  • Handy guide of Tarbes
  • the Square national scene Tarbes Pyreénées
  • Tourist office
  • Tarbes and its history
  • fountains of the Four Valleys
  • Of the old photographs of Tarbes
  • Official site of Large Tarbes

Sources of the article

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