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Hautes-Pyrénées

Conviviality of the Pyrenees - Taste of Happiness

Taste the sweetness of living in the mountains.

Our small Pyrenean, welcoming and peaceful villages have preserved their charm. Did you know it?
The Hautes-Pyrenees concentrates the largest number of small villages in France.
Typical architecture of the Valley of Campan, charming villages in the Val D'Azun, Painted churches in the Louron...

Warmth of men, good food, comfortable accommodation, each valley welcomes you in all simplicity.

Like our villages, our stations are not snow factories but on the contrary human-sized convivial stations where the sense of welcome is inborn and where it shall be good to spend your vacations. Swallow the ski slopes, take a break in the sun outside a mountain top restaurant, contemplate the nature surrounding you, participate in the torch lit descent, relish a soup with friends in the restaurant, sleep in the corner of the chimney fire, this is the pleasure of vacations.

You don't know the Pyrenees; here are some keys to understand you well!

Ambiance Pyrénées, definition for the inexperienced!

The ambiance Pyrénées is...
¨ Recognizing the birds of prey in the sky thanks to your ski monitor who is also a shepherd in summer.
¨ Sing «Montagnes Pyrénées» (homage to our mountains) at all good occasions (meal, torch lit descent or simple desire)... Here the mountain song is in the blood!
¨ Taste the Noir of Bigorre (it's an ancient race of pigs with excellent ham!) with a good Madiran (it's the local wine!) and comment widely on its flavor with the hostess of the inn (we can have different opinions!)
¨ Stop at the corner of a road, see the shepherd take out these flocks and finish in his sheep barn by tasting his cheese, because he sees well that you are dying to taste it and he is proud of his work.

It is, it is ... Parts of life to share endlessly with the «natives», they love their country, they are proud of it and they would really like you to love it also. This is why the meeting is inevitable; this is the «ambiance Pyrénées»!