Bartres

Bartres is situated 4km from Lourdes. it is a small village with an interesting parish church dedicated to St John the Baptist. Bernadette enjoyed coming to this church to pray. Twice in her life, Bernadette went to live with her foster mother Marie Lague at Bartres. The first time she was still a very young baby. The second time she was thirteen years old. On her second stay, she was a worker on the farm and a shepherdess for the sheep.
Today in the picturesque village the places to see are the church, a sheepfold on the hillside where Bernadette tended to the sheep and a farmhouse, although not the original farm where she stayed, it has been furnished with artifacts from the period and with some of the original furniture.
About a kilometre out of the village centre is Hosanna House which is a residential centre for young people with a disability and is owned and run by HCPT.