Cauterets

Cauterets is a French commune with 908 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Occitania region in the Hautes-Pyrénées department . It is located in the Argelès-Gazost arrondissement and the canton of La Vallée des Gaves , about 30 kilometers southwest of the famous pilgrimage site of Lourdes .

Cauterets is best known for its numerous thermal springs , which are still used today for medical applications. Furthermore, the area around the community was made accessible by creating ski slopes , cross-country trails and a cable car for winter sports .

Well-known sights in the area include the Pyrenees National Park and the Pont d'Espagne , a bridge over the Gave du Marcadau located around four kilometers southwest of Cauterets .

Cauterets finds literary mention in Heinrich Heine's poem Atta Troll .

literature

Michel Labrousse: CAUTERETS Hautes-Pyrénées, France . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .

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