The Area

The house is situated in the village of Gavarnie, the highest village in the French Pyrenees (1,375 metres) at the foot of the famous Cirque de Gavarnie, a spectacular semicircle of fourteen 3000-metre peaks forming the frontier with Spain.

Gavarnie is in the Pyrenees National Park and is a World Heritage Site. It is is a beautiful base for walking, hiking, cycling, bird watching, pony trekking, and skiing, ice climbing and snowshoeing in the winter. There are tennis courts and a swimming pool ten minutes away in Gedre, which also has ice skating and a bobsleigh run during the winter months.

Close by are Cauterets and the famous Pont d'Espagne, Luz St Sauveur, a market town with thermal baths and health centre, a C12th fortified church and castle, and the pilgrimage centre of Lourdes with the grotto of St Bernadette and interesting museum set on a crag high above the old town.

You can find more information about the area from the following web sites:

www.gavarnie.com - the official Gavarnie site - lots of local information

www.parc-pyrenees.com - the Pyrenees Nation Park official site

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