Situation

Lestelle-Btharram is located east of the department, twenty-five kilometers southeast of Pau.

Access

The town is served by county roads 35, 226, 526 and 937 and by line SNCF Toulouse - Bayonne.

Hydrography

"Bridge ivy "above the Gave de Pau (photographed between 1859 and 1910 by Eugene Trutat

The town is crossed by the Gave de Pau , a tributary of the Adour and its tributaries, streams and Cacaret Batcrabre. The latter is itself fed on the town by the brook Abadie.

A tributary of the Ouzom , the Arrieucourt Creek, also runs on the town. The latter in turn is joined on the land-Lestelle Betharram by the brook Ges.

localities and hamlets

• Btharram
• Calvary
• Lestelle
• Plain
• Sansguilhem
• Greenhouse Brozou
• Village

Common Boundary

• Igon north
• Montaut east
• Asson west
• Saint-P-de-Bigorre ( Hautes-Pyrenees ) south-east

Place names

The place name appears in the forms Lestelle the bastide Lestelle (1335 , reversal of Beam ), Lestelle (1402 , censier Barn ), Stella (1429 , of censier Bigorre ), Lestelle (1544 , titles of Bearn ), Lastelle and Estelle (1544 respectively and 1675 , reversal of Beam ) and St. John's Lestelle (1675 , den of Lestelle ).

The toponym Betharram Lestelle hamlet, is mentioned in 1335 (reformation of Beam ) and appears in forms Guatarram (1335 , terrier Lestelle ) and the Chapel of Our Lady of Calvary Betarram (1644 , titles of the chamber of accounts Pau ).

His name Bearn is Lestelle-Btharram.

History

Paul Raymond notes that in 1385 thirty-two fires and Betharram. The two parishes were dependent on the bailiwick of Nay.

Lestelle is a country house created in 1335 on the territory of Asson (district Artigaux).

Lestelle-Btharram is a very ancient shrine and always busy (Sunday September 14 and following). Tradition says that in fact the Virgin to save a girl from drowning, handing him a branch under the bridge (btharram means "beautiful branch" in Bearn ) and more than eighty miracles have been recorded there in the ^seventeenth century. The sanctuary of the ^sixteenth and ^seventeenth centuries is a jewel of Baroque art in Barn.

In 1837 , Michel Garicoits founded the Collge Notre-Dame de Betharram, headquarters of the Congregation of Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus a dual purpose mission and teaching led her to spread around the world (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Cte d'Ivoire, China). It can be seen in the chapel's glass coffin and a piece of his thumb.

It was at Lestelle-Btharram then well known for its miracles, as Bernadette Soubirous had very often. She brought the rosary she held during the appearance of the Virgin at Lourdes.

Administration

Intercommunality

Lestelle Betharram-owned by six intercommunal structures:

• community of common Vath Vielha
• Nay sndicat AEP West
• municipal association for the management of watersheds and Beez Ouzom
• municipal association of defense against flooding of the Gave de Pau
• union county electrification
• municipal association for the construction of the ESC of Nay.

Demographics

Lestelle-Btharram is part of the urban area of Pau.

Economy

Culture and Heritage

The local festivals are held in late June.

Heritage Civil

Bridge Betharram (arch bridge span built in 1687) was registered historic monuments in 1925.

Religious heritage

• Calvary and the Cross was rebuilt in 1841 on the ruins of the monuments of the ^seventeenth century to destroy the Revolution and whose stations had been identified as early as 1805. You can see the bas-reliefs of the Passion cycle sculpted by Alexandre Renoir and chapels built in eclectic style between 1841 and 1845.

• The Chapel of Our Lady was built in the ^seventeenth century. The Saint Michel Garicoits date, for its part, the early ^twentieth century.
• Chapel Betharram contains tables , furniture , statues and objects classified the monuments.

• The Church of St. John the Baptist ( XVIII ^century ) has furniture also classified.

• The Museum of the Congregation of the Fathers of Lestelle Betharram-rich accumulation of objects throughout the centuries, has many collections, from prehistoric to modern times, in relation to regional history.

Heritage Environmental

Caves Betharram

The caves Betharram are a series of caves located in the border departments of Pyrnes-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrenees.

Their common interests the right of Asson and Lestelle-Btharram in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques and Saint-P-de-Bigorre in the Hautes-Pyrenees. They explore on foot, by boat and by train, the key to the formation of caves like.

Amenities

Education

Lestelle-Btharram has a public elementary school and a college-prep school (Notre Dame establishment Btharram ).

Recreation and sports facilities

• Football 7: club Izards Lestelle
• Rugby 13: Avant-Garde club Lestelle XIII

Personalities linked to the common

born in the nineteenth ^century

• Frederic Godefroy , born in 1826 in Paris and died in 1897 at Lestelle-Btharram is a philologist, journalist and French teacher.

born in the ^twentieth century

• Jorge Semprun , born in 1923 in Madrid , is a writer, screenwriter and politician whose Spanish most of the literary work is written in French. During the Spanish war , he stayed first at-Lestelle Betharram in the house of Jean-Marie Soutou, a close of Esprit, a journal which his father, Jos Mara Semprn, was a correspondent in Spain.

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