LUCHON LUCHONA road away between the rocks dug by the Pîque which runs to the Garonne under the haughty eyes of the Pyrenees… and there, 140 kilometres from Toulouse, Luchon. The Queen of the Pyrenees. Louis-Napoléon, Lamartine, Flaubert, Dumas and Rostand were fighting for water. Luchon is now the first European station for O.R.L and the rheumatology. You have to follow the Allée driveway lined with trees and hotels of the th century, win the Quinconces Park, see the beautiful Édifice and Vaporarium thermal baths (this extraordinary natural hammam in Europe), stroll in the parks or in the steep lanes of the old quarters. Among the monuments of the city, the chateau Lassus Nestier, which houses the tourist office and the museum of the Country of Luchon, built in 1772 by Baron Marc de Lassus also owner of the castle of Montréjeau. The casino, designed in 1880 by the architect Castex, transformed in the 1930 s by the architect Martin and whose inspirational theatre Napoleon III saw succeeding the most famous artists of the century: Sydney Bechet, Sacha Guitry, Dario Moreno, Charles Trenet, Charles Dumont, Stéphane Grapelli, etc. The romantic people will not forget to take the walk to Villa Julia where Edmond Rostand spent the first twenty-two summers of her life, where he wrote the poems titled Les Musardises and where the balcony, he said, inspired him to the famous scene of Cyrano. Hikers, finally, will remember that the surrounding area of Luchon has no fewer than 250 kilometres of marked trails.

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