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Pau combines all the functions and administrative headquarters of a regional agglomeration: General Council of Pyrénées-Atlantiques , Court of Appeal for the departments under the purview of Pau (Pyrenees Atlantiques, Landes and Gers), the regional hospital, Chamber of commerce and industry of Pau Béarn , Chamber of Trade of Pyrénées ...
In 1800 the arrondissements of Pau, Bayonne, Mauléon, Oloron and Orthez were established. The arrondissements of Mauléon and Orthez were disbanded in 1926. [2] The borders of the arrondissements of Pyrénées-Atlantiques were modified in January 2017: [3] one commune from the arrondissement of Bayonne to the arrondissement of Oloron-Sainte-Marie
The arrondissement of Pau (French: Arrondissement de Pau, Occitan: Distrito de Pau Basque: Paueko barrutia) is an arrondissement of France in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It has 268 communes. [2] Its population is 311,949 (2021), and its area is 2,548.9 km 2 (984.1 sq mi). [3]
The following is a list of the 545 communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [1] Communauté d'agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées; Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque; Communauté de communes Adour Madiran (partly) Communauté de communes du ...
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Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a border department, has cultivated a number of economic and cultural links with Spain. Two urban concentrations exist in the east and west of the department: Pau, which has 145,000 inhabitants and 344,000 workers in the local area; and Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz which has 166,400 inhabitants and 235,000 workers in the ...
The first theatre in Pau, established shortly after the French Revolution, was in Place Gramont at the corner with Rue de Liège. [2] [3] In the 1830s, after the old theatre became dilapidated, a group of local businessmen decided to commission a new theatre. The site they chose, in Place Royale, had been identified for a new church to replace ...
The musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau is a town museum in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques in France. In 1864 it was founded by the Société des Amis des Arts de Pau and by its president Charles Le Cœur, who became the museum's first curator.