La vallée de Saint-Savin, vallée de la Rivière de Saint-Savin ou Arribèra de Sent Savin, est un des sept ensembles des Pyrénées françaises du Lavedan, partie sud-occidentale de la Bigorre qui appartient actuellement au département des Hautes-Pyrénées, région Occitanie. Elle est située au sud-ouest du Lavedan et regroupe les communes de Adast, Arcizans-Avant, Cauterets, Lau-Balagnas, Pierrefitte-Nestalas, Saint-Savin, Soulom et Uz.
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Cauterets is a spa town, a ski resort and a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department and the region of Occitanie in south-western France.
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Viscos is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France. It is famous for being the setting of Brazilian author Paulo Coelho's 2000 novel The Devil and Miss Prym.
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Luz Ardiden is a ski resort in the Pyrenees. It is situated in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, in the Occitanie Region. The ski resort lies at a height of 1,720 m and was opened on 16 January 1975. In recent years the road to Luz Ardiden has served as an occasional stage finish for the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España.
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Soulom is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.
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Villelongue is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.
Villelongue is situated on the flank of the Hautacam mountain, around a stream called the Ruisseau d'Isaby, and descends to the Gave de Gavarnie torrent.
It consists of a main village with a smaller hamlet above called Ortiac. Ortiac has a medieval chapel. The woods above Ortiac conceal the Abbey of Saint-Orens, now in ruins.
Villelongue has considerably expanded in recent years, as new tracts are open to development and as the road infrastructure have developed to allow inhabitants to commute to Lourdes and Tarbes.
Villelongue is unusual among local towns in having a latinate name, rather than a name deriving from Bigourdan. The name is said to derive from a Latin villa dating from late antiquity, situated in the lower part of the modern village, in an area known as "Las Longas".