. Southern France, including Corsica: handbook for travellers. first two witha view of the churches). — In the town: Hotel du Commerce (PI. q; E,2,3), near the parish-church, R. 21/2-3, B. 1, dej. 3, D. 3 fr.; de Paris(PI. t; E, 3); des Pyrenees (PI. r; F, 4), de France (PI. s ; E, 4), near Mareadal; Beau-Sejour, near the station. Cabs, from the station to town or vice versa, 50 c. each pers.; perhr. 13/4 fr., with two horses 2l/o fr., landau 3l/» fr.; at. night 50 c. , 30 c. Tramways (uniform fare 15 c.) from the station to the Basilica andthe Mareadal; from the station t
. Southern France, including Corsica: handbook for travellers. first two witha view of the churches). — In the town: Hotel du Commerce (PI. q; E,2,3), near the parish-church, R. 21/2-3, B. 1, dej. 3, D. 3 fr.; de Paris(PI. t; E, 3); des Pyrenees (PI. r; F, 4), de France (PI. s ; E, 4), near Mareadal; Beau-Sejour, near the station. Cabs, from the station to town or vice versa, 50 c. each pers.; perhr. 13/4 fr., with two horses 2l/o fr., landau 3l/» fr.; at. night 50 c. , 30 c. Tramways (uniform fare 15 c.) from the station to the Basilica andthe Mareadal; from the station to Soum (p. 139; cable-railway up thePic de Jer, p. 126). Post and Telegraph Office, behind the parish-church, to the left. Lourdes is a small town of 7758 inhab., on the right bank of theGave du Pau, at the point where the river, descending from the valleyof Argeles, turns abruptly W. towards the plain. It is built at thefoot of a hill on which stands an ancient Castle. (PI. D, E, 2, 3), whichformerly commanded the entrance of the valley and was often be-. to Toulouse. LOURDES. II. Route IS. 12;) sieged in the middle ages, wars with England. Thiscastle (adm. 25 c), though uninteresting in itself, affords a beauti-ful view of the valley and the Pyrenees as far as the snowy slopesof the Vignemale. The entrance (PI. D, E, 3) is in the Rue duChateau, to the E. Near it is the old Parish Church (PI. E, 3) whichcontains nothing remarkable. A new Church (PI. P, 3) was begunfarther to the E. in 1877 , but after the death of the cure whoundertook the enterprise the work was suspended until 1900. The present importance and celebrity of the town are due toits Pilgrimage, dating only from 1858. Bernadette Soubirous (who died in a convent in 1880), a peasant-girl, then about 14 years of age, alleged that the Virgin had several timesappeared to her in a grotto and ordered that a shrine should be erectedon the spot, to which many would resort for prayer. Lovers of the mar-vellous
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