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Lourdes surroundings  |
Toulouse (175 km from Lourdes) |
This large city, which is today a regional capital, was for centuries one of the most important religious and pilgrimage centres on the Saint-James of Compostella trail.
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Saint-Sernin’s Basilica (Masterpiece of 11th century Romanesque art), its crypt housing a large number of saints’ relics. |
| Saint-Etienne’s Cathedral (11th-17th century). |
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The Jacobins monastery (13th-14th centuries), its church (Masterpiece of Gothic Art of the South of France), renowed for its palm-tree vaults, its cloister, its Chapter house, its dining hall, its chapel decorated with 14th century frescos. |
The Augustins museum, situated in the old Augustinian monastery (14th-15th centuries) which houses a unique collection of romanesque and gothic sculptures as well as collections of 17th-19th century Italian and French paintings. |
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The Capitole Square. |
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