Pilgrimage Town of Lourdes, France

Lourdes is a small town lying in the foothills of the Pyrenees, France, famous for the Marian apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes said to have occurred in 1858 to Bernadette Soubirous. At that time, the most prominent feature of the town was the fortified castle that rises up from a rocky escarpment at its center.