Eaux-Bonnes Explained

Eaux-Bonnes
Commune Status:Commune
Image Coat Of Arms:Blason ville fr Eaux-Bonnes (Pyrénées-Atlantiques).svg
Arrondissement:Oloron-Sainte-Marie
Canton:Oloron-Sainte-Marie-2
Insee:64204
Postal Code:64440
Mayor:Jean-Luc Braud[1]
Term:2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:Vallée d'Ossau
Coordinates:42.9739°N -0.3908°W
Elevation M:750
Elevation Min M:520
Elevation Max M:2619
Area Km2:38.52
Demonym:Eaux-Bonnais, Eaux-Bonnaises

Eaux-Bonnes (in French o bɔn/, "good waters"; Occitan (post 1500);: Aigas Bonas) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.

Description

Eaux-Bonnes is close to the small town of Laruns. It is situated at a height of 2460feet at the entrance of a fine gorge, overlooking the confluence of two rivers. The village's waters were first documented in the middle of the 14th century. The Eaux-Chaudes spa is 5miles south-west of Eaux-Bonnes, and there is fine mountain scenery in the neighbourhood of both places, the Pic de Ger near Eaux-Bonnes.

The climate which characterizes the town is of "mountain climate", according to the typology of climates of France which then has eight major types of climates in metropolitan France.[2]

Gourette is a winter sports resort located in the commune on the high mountain pass Col d'Aubisque.

History

The historian Auguste Lorieux (1796–1842) died in Eaux-Bonnes.

Nearby to the north-west on the Surcou road, is the impressive villa Cockade, the construction of which is detailed in Dornford Yates's novel The House That Berry Built.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022. fr.
  2. Joly . Daniel . Brossard . Thierry . Cardot . Hervé . Cavailhes . Jean . Hilal . Mohamed . Wavresky . Pierre . Les types de climats en France, une construction spatiale . Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography . 18 June 2010 . 10.4000/cybergeo.23155 . free .