Located in the Pyrenees, the tourist resort of Bagneres de Bigorre accommodates sportsmen because of his proximity with Tourmalet, but also many curists, due to its thermal spa.
Bagneres de Bigorre was known under the name of Vicus Aquensis by Romans, amateurs of thermal baths, for the quality of its water. It is charged with trace elements, calcium, sulfate and magnesium. They are drawn at a 200 meters depth, without any pollution and extracted at a 50°C temperature. The Thermal baths "de la Reine" and the "Grands Thermes Aquensis Cité des Eaux", local water-cure establishments, accommodate the patient who has respiratory diseases (asthma, bronchitides, sinusitises, otitises…), psychosomatic (insomnia, overwork, neuroses, nervous breakdown, spasmophilia) or rhumatologic ones (osteoarthritis, rheumatisms in various forms and neuralgias). The treatments are done in various forms, according to the affections:
For the psychosomatic problems: Clean drink, airbaths, baths in individual bath-tub, hydromassages, underwater massages by kinesitherapists, local showers, with strong or middle pressure.
For the rheumatology: Clean drink, airbaths, baths in individual bath-tub, showers, showers with strong pressure, massages under water by kinesitherapists, hydromassages local applications of mud, feet bath.
The duration of the cures is 18 days. Address Thermes de la Reine: 6, allée Fernand de Cardaillac - 65200 Bagneres de Bigorre France.
Aquensis, the city of water is a modern spa, where various stays of back in shape, relaxation and wellbeing are proposed. The customers have access to the great bath, a swimming pool, the hammam, the sauna, the jacuzzi and the solarium. A tearoom is open in Eastern space. Address: Aquensis, la Cité des Eaux - Rue du Pont d’Arras - 65200 Bagneres de Bigorre.
But Bagneres de Bigorre is also a city for the sportsmen: The skiable field of Tourmalet culminates at 2,500 meters of altitude and extends on more than 100 kilometers. Here, in winter holidays in La Mongie, the skiers can practice the Alpine skiing or the cross-country skiing and take lessons of ski. Possibility to rent material in station. The skating rink of Bagneres-la-Mongie is open in Tuesday and Saturday evenings.
Lodging in Bagneres and in the surroundings: Bagneres de Bigorre propose an important offer ofcampsites, hirings of holidays and many hotels of various categories.
- Bellevue Hotel. The hotel of the thermal baths of Bagneres, classified 2 seasons, has 28 rooms studios, including 2 adapted for handicapped people. Address: 6, allée Fernand de Cardaillac - 65200 Bagneres de Bigorre.
- Hotel restaurant the Relais Des Pyrenees, establishment 3 seasons. The establishment counts 51 very well equipped and comfortable rooms (hair drier, access Internet, television). Address: 1, avenue du 8 Mai 1945 65200 Gerde France.
- Guesthouse Bagneres de Bigorre, Les Petites Vosges: 4 guestrooms located in centre town, in front of Aquensis. Address: 17 boulevard Carnot 65200 Bagneres de Bigorre France.
Holidays rentals close to Bagneres de Bigorre: House for rent with 1 living room, equipped kitchen, 2 bedrooms, bathroom, garden, chimney. Address: 19, rue Sainte-Anne 65200 Gerde.
Bagnères camp-site: Le Bigourdan camp-site in Bagneres de Bigorre, proposes nearly 48 sites for tents or caravans and mobil homes in hiring. The campers have a swimming pool at their disposal. Commodities arranged for the people with handicap.
For all informations about seasonal hiring or cure at a watering-place, the tourists and curists can contact the tourist office 3, Allée Tournefort - BP 226,
65202 Bagneres de Bigorre.
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