Campan

Campan is a common French, located in the department of the Hautes-Pyrénées and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

Geography

Campan is composed of four entities:

  • the Borough, sits of the town hall
  • co. Marie de Campan, famous for its role in the Tour de France
  • Séoube and its valley which leads to the Col of Aspin
  • Gripp and Artigues with the foot of the Col of Tourmalet

History

Administration

The commune of Campan presents the characteristic, rather rare in France to comprise two electoral colleges for the municipal elections: the borough on a side and Sainte-Marie Séoube of the other.

Demography

Economy

The main resources are the Forêt, the breeding which produce the Lait and the Laine and the Tourisme.

Places and monuments

The war memorial of Campan

Carved by Christian Edmond, artist of Bordeaux and set up in 1926, in front of the church, with the right-hand side of the southern gate, the war memorial of Campan is characterized by his aspect sober and moving.

Far from the heroic soldiers who decorate many monuments in France, the statue which dominates it represents a woman in meditation, with the practically invisible face, and which wears traditional clothing of the valley. This monument gathers in the same homage deaths of the wars of the 20th century for each section of the commune: The Borough, Holy Marie and Séoube.

Finally low-reliefs evoke the peace found through the representations of the three main wealths of the commune: wood, butter, the wool.

Mounaques de Campan

Formerly when a man of the Valley of Campan married apart from the standard, for example a widower who married an young girl, it was the object of a “hullabaloo”, demonstration of rather violent mockery. The couple was represented in the form of coarse headstocks, Mounaques (of the occitan Monaca , the Poupée).

For a few years, a workshop of small mounaques of collection has opened. Founded by Maryse Bouyrie and Marie-madeleine Ortéga, initially located with Séoube, it is located since 1999 in the middle of Campan, in a house bought by the municipal council, the house “Clairefontaine”

Canting hypocrites of Campan

As much of boroughs of the the Pyrenees, Campan knew the existence of the Cagots, kinds of rejected which until the beginning of the 20th century were rejected on Right Bank of the Adour. Nowadays the bridge which connects two banks names “bridge of the Canting hypocrites”

The Forging mill of Holy-Marie-of-Campan

One of the top-places of the Tour de France. Eugene Christophe, known as the Gallic Old man repaired there the fork of its bicycle at the time of the edition of 1913. A plate points out it.

Surroundings

  • the city nearest is Bagnères-with-Bigorre

  • the Col of Aspin and the Col of Tourmalet
  • the Ski station of Mongie and Ski touring of Payolle
  • the baronnies and the Gouffre of Esparros
  • the Pic of the South of Bigorre, 2  865  m, seat of a observatory scientific and accessible all the year to the tourists

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of the Hautes-Pyrénées

External bonds

  • the official site of the town hall of Campan
  • Campan and… Mrs Campan
  • the football club of Campan on this site
  • history of the tram Doors-Campan (Sainte-Marie, Gripp, Artigues) on this site
  • Campan on the site of INSEE
  • Campan on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Campan on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Campan on Mapquest

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