Lescar

Lescar is a commune with 10,030 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Pyrénées- Atlantiques in the Aquitaine region. It belongs to the district and is the seat of the canton Pau Lescar.

Neighboring communities

• Uzein, Castet and Sauvagnon in the North
• Poey -de- Lescar in the West
• Artiguelouve and Laroin in the south

History

The diocese of Lescar, founded in the 6th century, was incorporated in 1909 with the Diocese of Oloron in the diocese of Bayonne.

Today Lescar has become, with its narrow streets to a residential town in the neighborhood of Pau.

Demographics

Attractions

• Notre Dame Cathedral. Construction began in 1120. The church was at the time of Queen Joan III. plundered by Protestants. Restoration work in the 17th and 18th centuries, rescued the Romanesque choir. In the Cathedral the kings Francis Phoebus were († 1483 ) and Catherine of Navarre († 1516), whose son Henry II of Navarre († 1555) and his wife, the poet Margaret of Angoulême ( † 1549), buried.

Capital in the Cathedral

Mosaic in the Cathedral

Traffic

In Lescar there is a railway station on the route Toulouse - Bayonne, which also Transversal pyrénéenne we called. In the north of the municipal territory branches of the Autoroute A64 Toulouse - Bayonne Autoroute A65, which leads Langon (Gironde ).

Twinning

Partners town of Lescar are L' Alfas del Pi on Spain's Mediterranean coast in the province of Alicante, and Sátão in the Portuguese countryside near Viseu.