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Lourdes
Lourdes
Lourdes is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in south-western France.Lourdes is a small market town lying in the foothills of the Pyrenees, famous for the Marian apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes occurred in 1858 to Bernadette Soubirous...

is a town in southern France which is a site of religious pilgrimage.
Lourdes may also refer to:

In cities and towns,
  • Lourdes, São Paulo
    Lourdes, São Paulo
    Lourdes is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2004 is 2,182 and the area is 114.18 km². The elevation is 403 m....

    , Brazil
  • Lourdes, Norte de Santander
    Lourdes, Norte de Santander
    Lourdes is a Colombian municipality and town located in the department of North Santander.-References:...

    , Colombia
  • Lourdes, Newfoundland and Labrador
    Lourdes, Newfoundland and Labrador
    Lourdes is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The town had a population of 550 in the Canada 2006 Census. The current mayor of Lourdes is Henry "Hank" Gaudon....

    , Canada
  • Lourdes, Paraguay
    Lourdes, Paraguay
    Lourdes is a settlement in the Alto Paraguay Department of Paraguay....

  • Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Manitoba, Canada
  • Nossa Senhora de Lourdes, Sergipe
    Nossa Senhora de Lourdes, Sergipe
    Nossa Senhora de Lourdes is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Sergipe. Its population was 6,872 and its area is 80 km²....

    , Brazil


In other uses,
  • Lourdes, the title of an 1894 novel by the French writer Emile Zola
    Émile Zola
    Émile François Zola was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism...

  • Lourdes
    Lourdes (film)
    Lourdes is a 2009 film directed by Jessica Hausner. It received the 2009 Vienna International Film Festival's Vienna Film Prize for best film.-Plot:Christine is a wheelchair-using woman with severe multiple sclerosis...

    , a 2009 film
  • Lourdes SIGINT Station
    Lourdes SIGINT Station
    The Lourdes SIGINT facility, located near Havana, Cuba, was the largest facility of its kind operated by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service or FIS, outside of Russia. Located less than from Key West, the facility covered . Construction began in July 1962...

    , Cuba
  • Lourdes Stadium
    Lourdes Stadium
    Lourdes Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Drogheda, Ireland. It is currently used mostly for soccer matches and athletics. Opened in 1961 and was the home stadium of Drogheda United between 1962 and 1976. The stadium holds 4,000 ....

    , a stadium in Drogheda, Republic of Ireland
  • Lourdes Hernández, mostly only Lourdes, a Spanish singer-songwriter
  • Lourdes, a minor character in Animorphs
    Animorphs
    Animorphs is an English language science fiction series of young adult books written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic. Five humans, Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, and Tobias, and one alien, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill , obtain the ability to morph into any animal they touch. They name...


See also

  • Lourdes (given name)
    Lourdes (given name)
    Lourdes and María de Lourdes are given names.Notable people bearing these names include:* Lourdes Alcorta, a Peruvian politician* Lourdes Becerra, a Spanish swimmer* Lourdes Benedicto, an American actress* Lourdes Castrillo Brillantes, a Filipino writer...

  • Lourde (disambiguation)
  • "Lou-erds", the Leeward Islands
    Leeward Islands
    The Leeward Islands are a group of islands in the West Indies. They are the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles chain. As a group they start east of Puerto Rico and reach southward to Dominica. They are situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean...

    adjacent the Caribbean
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