VISIT OF THE "PETIT LOURDES"
With FamilyCultureThe "Petit Lourdes" transports you to the past in the footsteps of Bernadette and makes you discover the authentic history and the true birth of Lourdes in 1858.
Contact
68 avenue Peyramale
65100 LOURDES
05 62 94 24 36
lepetitlourdes65@orange.fr
Through a walk in the middle of nature, admire its old houses in real masonry, its waterways and its old mills reproduced in a pleasant garden of flowers and bonsai trees…
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
From April 5th to October 31st, open daily from 9.30 am to 6.30 pm.
THE LITTLE LOURDES (LE PETIT LOURDES)
Wonderful reconstruction in real masonry of Lourdes in the time of Bernadette according to authentic documents.
Opened in 1954, the Little Lourdes (Le Petit Lourdes) is also the story of a passionate artist, Georges Simenon, who dedicated 25 years of his life to realise his miniature village (scale 1/30th) where nothing is missing: The church of Saint-Pierre, the mills of Lapacca (les moulins du Lapacca), the castle Château fort, the Grotto of Massabielle, the plaster representation of the Basilica (scale 1/20th)…