France Commune of Tarbes Tarbes, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Région	Midi-Pyrénées
Département	Hautes-Pyrénées (préfecture)
Arrondissement	Tarbes
Canton	Chief town of 5 cantons
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Tarbes
Mayor	Gérard Trémège (2001-2008)
Land area¹	15.33 km²
Population² (1999)	46,275
Population density (1999)	3,019 pers./km²
Altitude	284 m - 326 m (avg. 304 m)
INSEE/Postal code	65440 / 65000
1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km². 2 Not counting those already counted in another commune (such as students and military personnel).

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Coordinates: 00° 04' 31" E, 43° 14' 02" N

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Location within France

Tarbes is a French town and commune, in the département of Hautes-Pyrénées, of which it is the préfecture. It is part of the historical region of Gascony.It is the second largest metropolitan area of Midi-Pyrénées, with 110,000 inhabitants. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1804x1689, 163 KB) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1804x1689, 163 KB) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ... Template:France divisions levels, Junkyard Willie The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. ... Hautes-Pyrénées is a département in southwestern France. ... In France, a préfecture is the capital city of a département. ... Gascony (French: Gascogne, pronounced  ; Gascon: Gasconha, pronounced ) is an area of southwest France that constituted a royal province prior to the French Revolution. ...

Geography

To the south of Tarbes is the pilgrimage town of Lourdes and then the border with Spain. Statue of the Blessed Virgin of Lourdes Our Lady of Lourdes Basilica Lourdes (Lorda in Occitan) is a town in the Hautes-Pyrénées département in France. ...

Miscellaneous

The 2001 Tour de France passed through Tarbes as part of its route. The Tour de France of 2001 was relatively short, but also difficult, with a number of heavy mountain stages, a team time trial and a climbing time trial. ...

Births

Tarbes was the birthplace of:

• Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac (1755-1841), one of the most notorious members of the French National Convention
• Théophile Gautier (1811-1872), writer
• Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), the commander-in-chief of Allied forces in World War I
• Henri Genès (1919-2005), actor and singer
• Cécile Ousset (born 1936), pianist

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Twin towns

Tarbes is twinned with:

• Huesca, Spain
• Altenkirchen, Germany

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External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Tarbes

• Tarbes town council website (in French)
• Tourism office website (in French)
• Tarbes Salad on Wikibooks cookbooks