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Lourdes travel guide

Visit Lourdes: Highlights and Tourist Information

Location: Lourdes is situated in the Hautes-Pyrenees department (Midi-Pyrenees region) in the south-west of France at 18 km from Tarbes, the department capital. (General information: Lourdes is 667 km from Paris and 885 km from the port at Calais).

Market days in Lourdes: weekly market: Wednesday & Tuesday & Thursday all day & Saturday all day & Monday & Friday; (markets take place in the morning unless indicated)

Popular places to visit near Lourdes: these include Saint-Savin at 13 km and Tarbes at 18 km. Ourdis-Cotdoussan église St Jacques (monuments on French pilgrim routes) is a listed heritage site at 8 km and Grottes de Betharram is a listed site of natural beauty at 12 km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.

Photos taken within 10 km

Selected places to visit and attractions near Lourdes, France

Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Lourdes

See France This Way travel guides for Hautes-Pyrenees and Midi-Pyrenees (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Lourdes.

Note that all distances from Lourdes shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.

Markets near Lourdes

• Lourdes: market every Wednesday & Tuesday & Thursday all day & Saturday all day & Monday & Friday (0km)
• Bagneres-de-Bigorre: market every Saturday all day (16km)
• Tarbes: market every Thursday all day (20km)
• Luz-Saint-Sauveur: market every Monday (25km)
• Castet: market every Thursday (30km)
• Gan: market every Wednesday (32km)
• Vic-en-Bigorre: market every Saturday all day (32km)
• Pau: market every every day except Sunday (34km)
• Rabastens-de-Bigorre: market every Monday (36km)
• Arreau: market every Thursday all day (39km)
• Saint-Lary-Soulan: market every Saturday (43km)

Tourist attractions nearby

Below we show places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Lourdes and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Lourdes map below.

Heritage Site Ourdis-Cotdoussan église St Jacques (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (8km); Aragnouet chapelle des templiers (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (40km); Jézeau église Saint-Laurent (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (41km)

National Monument Marshall Foch house (18km)

Remarkable Garden Jardin Massey (19km); Jardin du château de Momas (51km)

Site Of Natural Beauty Grottes de Betharram (12km); Grottes de Médous (18km); Col du Tourmalet (26km); Col d'Aubisque (27km); Gouffre d'Esparros (31km); Vallée d'Ossau (33km)

Ville Fleurie 4* Tarbes (20km); Pau (34km)

Zoo Or Wildlife Park Zoo d'Asson (18km)

Map of places to visit near Lourdes & Location Information

Geographical Information

Commune: Lourdes

Canton: Lourdes

Arrondissement: Argelès-Gazost

Department: Hautes-Pyrenees

Region: Midi-Pyrenees

Postcode: 65100

Distance to Lourdes

from Tarbes (local prefecture): 18 km

from Paris: 667 km

from Calais: 885 km

from Nice: 595 km

from Bordeaux: 198 km

from Strasbourg: 858 km

* distances are direct not by road!

More information

We have 31 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Lourdes): Ade, Arcizac-Ez-Angles, Artigues, Aspin-en-Lavedan, Averan, Barlest, Barry, Bartres, Berberust-Lias, Bourreac, Cheust, Ger, Gez-Ez-Angles, Jarret, Julos, Juncalas, Les Angles, Lezignan, Loubajac, Lugagnan, Omex, Ossen, Ourdis-Cotdoussan, Ouste, Pareac, Peyrouse, Poueyferre, Saint-Creac, Segus, Sere-Lanso and Viger.

Getting here

For driving distances to Lourdes from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.

This page in French: Visitez Lourdes