Lourdes travel guide
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In 1858 a fourteen-year-old girl reported eighteen apparitions of the Virgin at a grotto beside the river here, and Lourdes has since become one of the largest pilgrimage sites in the Catholic world.
Several million people come each year; the torchlit procession runs every evening in season. It is also a Pyrenean base — the amphitheatre of Gavarnie is World Heritage, and the observatory on the Pic du Midi is reached by cable car.
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