Lourdes Blueprint City Map
by HELGE Art Gallery
Title
Lourdes Blueprint City Map
Artist
HELGE Art Gallery
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art Paintings
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Lourdes Blueprint City Map.
Lourdes is a small market town lying in the foothills of the Pyrenees. It is part of the Hautes-Pyrénees department in the Occitanie region in south-western France. Prior to the mid-19th century, the town was best known for the Château fort de Lourdes, a fortified castle that rises up from a rocky escarpment at its center.
In 1858 Lourdes rose to prominence in France and abroad due to the Marian apparitions claimed to have been seen by the peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous, who was later canonized. Shortly thereafter the city with the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes became one of the worlds most important sites of pilgrimage and religious tourism. Today Lourdes hosts around six million visitors every year from all corners of the world. This constant stream of pilgrims and tourists transformed quiet Lourdes into the second most important center of tourism in France, second only to Paris, and the third most important site of international Catholic pilgrimage after Rome and the Holy Land. As of 2011, of French cities only Paris had more hotel capacity.
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December 16th, 2018
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