Bartrès
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Commune of Bartrès |
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Location | |
Administration | |
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Country | France |
Region | Midi-Pyrénées |
Department | Hautes-Pyrénées |
Arrondissement | D'Argelès-Gazost |
Canton | Canton de Lourdes-Ouest |
Statistics | |
Elevation | 439 m–575 m (avg. 430 m) |
Land area¹ | 7,31 km² |
Population² (1999) |
351 |
- Density | 48/km² |
Miscellaneous | |
INSEE/Postal code | 65070/ 65100 |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
Bartrès is a village and commune of the Hautes-Pyrénées département, in southwestern France.
The village is famous for its association with St Bernadette Soubirous. St. Bernadette was sent there in her infancy to a wet nurse, and again in her early teens to work for the same lady as a shepherdess. Today, the village is visited by numerous pilgrims who come to pray at the village church and venerate a relic of the saint.