Built on a rocky outcrop, as if levitating between heaven and earth, the castle - Pyrenean Museum of Lourdes majestically dominates the Marian city.
With more than a thousand years of history, this great stone vessel, classified as a Historic Monument, invites you to travel through time. In turn a count's residence, a stronghold, a royal prison and a barracks, the fortress has braved time and countless assaults to become today the Pyrenean museum.
The fortress, which presents a preserved defensive architecture (keep, drawbridge, portcullis), also offers from its ramparts an exceptional panorama on the city, the Sanctuary and the Pyrenean chain.
In the heart of its enclosure, the museum, labeled Museum of France, gathers the most important collections on the history and cultures of the Pyrenees from the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century.
Its botanical garden decorated with sculptures and architectural models also invites you to relax.
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