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By Kelby Carr, About.com Guide to France Travel since 2002

Lourdes Travel Guide: Pilgrims Attracted to Spot of Virgin Mary Sighting

Sunday July 31, 2005
lourdes2.jpgLourdes is the second most popular tourism city in all of France, attracting five million pilgrims annually from throughout the globe to the cave where a peasant girl had several visions of the Virgin Mary. Today, this is a bustling Pyrenees village that is central to several other great cities and attractions. Lourdes is second only to Paris in the number of hotel rooms available. Find out more about planning a trip to Lourdes, the story behind the Virgin Mary sightings and great daytrips from Lourdes with Lourdes Travel Guide: Pilgrims Attracted to Spot of Famous Virgin Mary Sighting

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