Bagnères-de-Bigorre

Bagnères-de-Bigorre () is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the Occitanie region, southwestern France.
Name of the city.
In the Middle Ages, the city had the name "Aquae Convenarum" or "Vicus Aquensis" ("City of the Waters"). The current name is formed from the Occitan "Banheras" ("baths") and the name of the region, "Bigorre".
Geography.
Bagnères-de-Bigorre is in the Bigorre region, in the Pyrenees foothills; the "commune" is where the valley of the Adour is in contact with the Campan valley.
It has an area of and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .
Climate.
The climate of Bagnères-de-Bigorre, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.
Population.
The inhabitants of Bagnères-de-Bigorre are known, in French, as "Bagnérais" (women: "Bagnéraises").
Bagnères-de-Bigorre has a population, in 2014, of 7,602, and its population density is of inhabitants/km2.
Evolution of the population in Bagnères-de-Bigorre
Administration.
Bagnères-de-Bigorre is a subprefecture of the Hautes-Pyrénées department since 1790. It is also the capital of the "arrondissement" of Bagnères-de-Bigorre and the administrative centre () of the canton La Haute-Bigorre with 14 "communes" and 15,242 inhabitants in 2014.
It is part of the intercommunality "Haute-Bigorre" ().
Sister cities.
Bagnères-de-Bigorre is twinned with: