Pyrenees Collection (page 5)

Andorra - General view of San-Julia-de-Loria Date: circa 1910s

Pig Market, Pyrenees
Pig market in the Pyrenees : Basque farmers negotiate sales. Date: 1901

Ossalois Guide and his bride-to-be
Pyrenees - border between France and Spain - the Ossalois people (who live in the vall?d Ossau). The gentleman on the left is a mountain guide in his distinctive short red felt jacket

Cauterets, France - Pyrenees Department
Cauterets, France - a spa town, ski resort and a commune in the Hautes-Pyrenees department in south-western France. View toward the Pic de Monne over the Plateau du Cambasque. Date: 1906

Picking up provisions - Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France
A small steam-powered sardine fishing boat picks up provisions for the fishermen crew from a beach at Saint-Jean-de-Luz, South west France. Date: 1906

Sketch of two men looking at clouds in the Pyrenees, 1920s. Artwork by Wynn Date: 1929

Saxifraga Longifolia, often called the King of Saxifrages, a Pyrenean plant of the Saxifragaceae family (commonly known as saxifrages or stone breakers because of their ability to grow in the cracks)

Luz Valley, France - The Castle of St Marie
Ruins of the St Marie Castle in the Luz Valley in the Pyrenees, southern France

Gavarnie - France - Hotel du Cirque
The Hotel du Cirque and the Cirque itself at Gavarnie, France. The Cirque de Gavarnie is a famous example of a cirque (amphitheatre-like valley) in the central Pyrenees, in the Pyrenees National Park

Luchon, Pyrenees, southern France - 87 miles south west of Toulous - famous for its thermal springs. Here, a patient crowd await the arrival of a parade, or a famous celebrity perhaps?

Lourdes, France - View of the town and Basilica

Luchon, France - Ox-drawn cart
Luchon, Pyrenees - southern France (famed for its thermal springs). Farmer with his ox-drawn cart and children

Lourdes, France - The Castle and the Gave
Lourdes, France - The Castle and the stream ( Gave )

Sheep in the street / village at Gavarnie, France
Gavarnie is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrenees department in southwestern France. The village, at an elevation of 4, 452 feet (1, 357 m) in the valley of the Gave (torrent) de Pau

Campanula Speciosa (Pyrenean Bellflower) of the Campanulaceae family. It often has blue-violet flowers, but is seen here with very pale blue petals

Lourdes - The Basillica and the Pyrenees
A panoramic view of Lourdes, France, showing the Rosary Basilica of the Sanctuary of our Lady at Lourdes and the distant mountains of the Pyrenees

Androsace Chumbii (Chumbyi) in winter
Androsace Chumbii (Chumbyi), of the Primulaceae family, also known as rock jasmine or fairy candelabra, seen here in winter

Poster advertising the Betharram Grottos
Poster for French railways advertising the Betharram Grottos in the Pyrenees, near Pau --a subterranean wonder of the world, not discovered until 1810, and not opened to the public until 1903

Winter sports in the Pyrenees poster
Poster advertising the area around Chemin de Fer in the midi Pyrenees in France as the ideal destination for winter sports. These jolly sledgers seem to think so anyway. Date: c.1920

Superbagneres Grand Hotel luggage label
Luggage label from the Grand Hotel in the Pyrenees

Pyrenees - Costume of the Ossalois people
Pyrenees - border between France and Spain - Costume of the Ossalois people. The man on the right holds a lamb across his shoulders

Description of a Lourdes cure
A description on the front of a Lourdes postcard describing a cure witnessed by the author, James Gardener, sent to his daughter who was a nun

Lourdes - Splendid Hotel Beau-Sejour - somewhere for the pilgrims to stay!

Charlemagne Roncesvalles
The Franks under Charlemagne retreating from Spain meet a Basque/Gascon force at Roncesvalles in the Pyrenees : his rearguard is annihilated, including the paladin Roland

Colombia Scene
Travellers in England, or even those who have passed over the Pyrenees or Alps, can have but a faint idea of the labour and danger of crossing the Andes

Wellington & Pyrenees
Wellington crosses the Pyrenees from Spain into France : in his camp at night

Cauterets, France
The village of Cauterets in the Pyrenees on the pilgrims way to the Compostelle Spa

Spa of Eaux-Chaudes
The spa of Eaux-Chaudes in the village of Laruns in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques on the border with Spain

Village of Eaux-Bonnes
The spa village of Eaux-Bonnes in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques on the border with Spain

Lestelle-Betharram
The church and convent of Lestelle-Betharram & Lestelle Bridge in the Pyrenees. A former place of pilgrimage

Etienne Autie in Action
Colonel JEAN FRANCOIS ETIENNE AUTIE leads his men against the enemy during the Pyrenees campaign of the Revolutionary War

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