Bagnères-de-Bigorre

Bagnères de Bigorre
Casino
Bagnères de Bigorre
Administration
Country	France
Region	Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Hautes-Pyrénées
Arrondissement	Bagnères-de-Bigorre
Canton	Bagnères-de-Bigorre
Mayor	Rolland Castells (2001–2008)
Statistics
Elevation	440–2,872 m (1,440–9,423 ft) (avg. 550 m or 1,800 ft)
Land area1	125.86 km2 (48.59 sq mi)
Population2	8,722  (2006)
- Density	69 /km2 (180 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	65059/ 65200
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Bagnères-de-Bigorre [baɲɛːʁ də biɡɔːʁ] (Occitan: Banhèras de Bigòrra) is a French commune in the south-western Hautes-Pyrénées department, of which it is a sub-prefecture.

Geography

Bagnères-de-Bigorre is located on the Adour river.

Notable people

Bagnères-de-Bigorre was the birthplace of:

• Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
• The Société Ramond, formed at a meeting between Henry Russell, Charles Packe, Maxwell Lyte and Emilien Frossard in 1865, and named after Louis Ramond de Carbonnières.

English writer and comedian Tony Hawks purchased a house in a village near Bagnères-de-Bigorre as told in his 2006 book A Piano in the Pyrenees.

Sport

• Stade Bagnérais - union team
• Tour de France stage finish in 2008, won by Ricardo Ricco

Points of interest

• Conservatoire botanique Pyrénéen
• Les Grottes de Medous

See also

• Bigorre
• La Mongie
• Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department

References

• INSEE commune file