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Extract from the Cauterets Travel Guides:
Thirty kilometres south of Lourdes,
CAUTERETS
is a pleasant if unexciting little town that owes its fame and its rather elegant Neoclassical architecture to its waters, still much in demand for the treatment of rheumatism and ear, nose and throat complaints. In modern times, it has also become one of the main Pyrenean ski and mountaineering centres.
Its origins as a spa began with Count Raymond de Bigorre's grant of land to the monks of St-Savin in 945 AD. In the seventeenth century, Marguerite d'Angoulme came to take the waters and wrote her
Heptameron
here. The eighteenth and nineteenth centurie...
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