07 Sep 2024 - Due to recent weather conditions and for safety reasons, access Luz-Saint-Sauveur / Gavarnie-Gèdre is closed. Col du Tourmalet open.
Cultural walks
in the Valleys of Gavarnie
Discover the heritage and history of the villages of the Gavarnie Valleys with “Heritage on a visit”. These family and cultural walks led by a tour guide are offered to you every summer, from June to September.
Explore the upper town historic and commercial with its flowery streets, panoramic terraces, stairs and fountains. There lower town, it extends around the thermal and residential district where the architectural and landscape elegance is detailed and savored.
Mountain villages of the Pyrenees
BETWEEN PASTORALISM AND TRADITIONS
From churches to abbeys, from pastoralism to traditions, explore the small mountain villages of the Gavarnie Valleys.
Tristan Buchot
Saint-Savin
HIGHLIGHT OF HERITAGE
This small village of character and its ancient Benedictine abbey keep the memory of monks, romantics and contemplatives. The visit promises a journey through time facing a dream panorama!
In the heart of an authentic and well-preserved mountain village, let yourself be seduced by this former capital of the Val d'Azun. Its small built heritage, its environment and its church are remarkable.
De Gèdre at the Saugué plateau: discover the landscapes facing the Cirque de Gavarnie, from the village village to the barn-stable area. There visit book a pastoral meeting with a breeder!
Manon Vallin
A MYSTICAL PLACE STUNNED IN LEGENDS
heas
At the foot of the grandiose Troumouse cirque, at an altitude of 1 meters, this summer hamlet remains a place of worship, miracles and legends. Meet in front of the Notre-Dame d’Héas chapel dedicated to the Virgin, protector of mountain people.
On the side ofEsquièze, at the foot of a legendary castle, come and decipher the traces of a mountain village with its mills, fountains and sculpted stones up to the superb baroque decor of the Saint-Nicolas church.
It's up to you to find the formula that will open the Lord's exit door in complete peace!
À Sere, the visit promises a magnificent panorama around the Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Sère church, the jewel of the Hautes-Pyrénées. Conducted in the form of a family investigation visit, your mission will be to free the Lord of Bigorre, prisoner of the Toys!
Get off the beaten track and discover the history of the villages of Gavarnie and Pierrefitte-Nestalas.
Pierre Meyer
CRADLE OF PYRENEISM
Gavarnie
If Gavarnie is best known for its circus, a natural wonder listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the mountain village and its church of the Hospitallers of Saint-Jean remains at the heart of the history of the pyreneism. Discover this village steeped in history(s) at the foot of an exceptional mountain.
Throughout its history, this crossroads of the nestes which became the gaves, reveals the riches of Pyrenean life, before, during and after theindustrial age. Let yourself be charmed by visit of this unsuspected heritage!
