Adé (; oc, Adèr) is a
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in the
Hautes-Pyrénées
Hautes-Pyrénées (; Gascon/Occitan: ''Nauts Pirenèus / Hauts Pirenèus'' awts piɾeˈnɛʊs es, Altos Pirineos; ca, Alts Pirineus alts piɾiˈneʊs English: Upper Pyrenees) is a department in the region of Occitania, southwestern France. ...
department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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in southwestern
France
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.
Geography
Adé is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées and part of the
agglomeration
Agglomeration may refer to:
* Urban agglomeration, in standard English
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of
Lourdes
Lourdes (, also , ; oc, Lorda ) is a market town situated in the Pyrenees. It is part of the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region in southwestern France. Prior to the mid-19th century, the town was best known for the Château ...
, north of the centre of Lourdes, itself.
The commune has a weakly extended territory of , which sprawls to the north-east, where the
Geune leaves the town and enters
Lanne, and to the south-east, near the locality of ''le Sarraut''.
Transport
The
N21 road travels through the commune, from north to south. The commune is also immediately adjacent to the south-western end of the
Tarbes–Lourdes–Pyrénées Airport
Tarbes–Lourdes–Pyrénées Airport (french: Aéroport Tarbes Lourdes Pyrénées; ) is an airport 9 km south-southwest of Tarbes in the Hautes-Pyrénées ''département'' of France.
Operations
It handles scheduled and charter flights fr ...
, to the north-east, along the N21 road.
Sites and monuments
*The chapel of Notre-Dame du Rosaire.
*The
church
Church may refer to:
Religion
* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
* Chris ...
of Saint-Hippolyte of Adé and the
Basilica of the Immaculate Conception de Lourdes are the works of the same architect. This building with three naves was built on the former
feudal motte. The cellar of the rectory is the former armory of the castle which was built in the 11th Century. Inside, a
tympanum represents the martyrdom of St. Hippolytus, patron saint of the village.
*The old
château
A château (; plural: châteaux) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking regions.
Nowaday ...
, of which remain the ancient walls.
Chapelle du Rosaire (Adé, Hautes-Pyrénées, France).JPG,
Adé chapelle Rosaire intérieur.JPG, The Interior of the chapel of Notre-Dame du Rosaire
Église Saint-Hippolyte d'Adé (Hautes-Pyrénées, France).JPG, The Church of Saint-Hippolyte
Population
See also
*
Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department
An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, ...
References
Communes of Hautes-Pyrénées
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