Col du Tourmalet is one of the highest paved mountain passes in the French Pyrenees, in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées. Sainte-Marie-de-Campan is at the foot on the eastern side and the ski station La Mongie two-thirds of the way up. The village of Barèges lies on the western side, above the town of Luz-Saint-Sauveur.
Summit of the Col du Tourmalet
View from the Col du Tourmalet to its western side
One of the mountain pass cycling milestones along the ascent from Sainte-Marie-de-Campan
Jacques Goddet memorial at the top of the Tourmalet
Hautes-Pyrénées is a department in the region of Occitania, southwestern France. The department is bordered by Pyrénées-Atlantiques to the west, Gers to the north, Haute-Garonne to the east, as well by the Spanish province of Huesca in the autonomous community of Aragon to the south. In 2019, its population was 229,567; its prefecture is Tarbes. It is named after the Pyrenees mountain range.
Prefecture building in Tarbes
Lourdes sanctuary
Pic du Midi de Bigorre
Vignemale