Bagnères-de-Luchon

Bagneres- de -Luchon (also Luchon ) is a commune and a spa in the Haute- Garonne of the Région Midi -Pyrénées. It lies in the valley of the Pique, at the mouth of her left tributary Neste d' Oô, which is also called One in the midst of the French Pyrenees, south of Montréjeau and Saint-Gaudens near the Spanish border. Bagneres- de -Luchon has 2585 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011).

Bagneres- de -Luchon was repeatedly stage of the Tour de France and is also winter.

Traffic

• Rail link to Toulouse via Montréjeau.

Attractions

• Thermes Cham Bert ( Kurhaus )

Personalities

• Jules Brevie (1880-1964), colonial administrator and politician
• Britt Lafforgue ( born 1948 ), alpine skier
• Ingrid Lafforgue ( born 1948 ), alpine skier
• Maurice Lafforgue (1915-1970), alpine skier