Lourdes Info Source

Lourdes District Source

• CENTRE VILLE Situated near the river which crosses Lourdes,the Gave,the residence Mariale offers you the all the pleasures of a natural environmemnt and the convenience to be at less than 500m (10mins walk) from the Cave and the sanctuaries and only a few minutes away from the city-centre,restaurants and other shopping facilities(with the second place after Paris for the city with most hotels in France).Since the apparition of the "Lady" in the Cave of Massabielle to the young Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 Lourdes has become an massive site of christian pilgrimage and receives every year some 5.000.000 visitors.