Editing Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques (section)

=== Outstanding built-up areas ===

==== Town squares ====
*{{Interlanguage link|Place Clemenceau (Pau)|fr|3=Place Clemenceau (Pau)|lt=''Place Clémenceau''}} and the ''Palais des Pyrénées'', the market square and centre commercial-street. In the heart of the downtown area, this is the site of many public festivals, shopping, and a fountain.
*''Place d'Espagne'' [Spain Square]: Containing buildings of contemporary architecture as well as the Bosquet commercial centre
*''Place des sept cantons'' [Seven Cantons Square]: This square is joined to not seven but six streets
*''Place des États'' [States Square]: The crossroads of [[transhumance]] until the Renaissance era, in the area of the [[Château de Pau]]
*{{Interlanguage link|Place Gramont (Pau)|fr|3=Place Gramont (Pau)|lt=''Place Gramont''}}: An architectural ensemble from the 18th century, with many summer terraces
*{{Interlanguage link|Place Reine-Marguerite (Pau)|fr|3=Place Reine-Marguerite (Pau)|lt=''Place Reine-Marguerite''}} [Queen Marguerite Square]: bordered by arcades with pebbled arches, it once was the marketplace, and a gallows and wheel for executions once stood here
*{{Interlanguage link|Place Royale (Pau)|fr|3=Place Royale (Pau)|lt=''Place Royale''}}: Created by Louis XIV, it was built in its present form with a statue of Henry IV during the reign of Louis Philippe. It includes the Pau Town Hall
*{{Interlanguage link|Place de Verdun (Pau)|fr|3=Place de Verdun (Pau)|lt=''Place de Verdun''}}: A large square today occupied by ample free parking and bordered to the west by the Bernadotte military barracks
*''Place de la Libération'': The Palace of Justice and the Santiago Church are in this square

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File:Place Clemenceau - Pau.JPG|Place Clemenceau
File:Place Royale de Pau.JPG|Place Royale
File:Paupalaisdejustice.jpg|Place de la Libération
File:Arcades de la Place Gramont Pau.JPG|Arcades of the Place Gramont
File:Paucasernebernadotte.jpg|Place de Verdun
File:Place Reine Marguerite de Pau.JPG|Place Reine-Marguerite
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==== Streets ====
{{Main|Boulevard des Pyrénées}}
*The ''Boulevard des Pyrénées'', created on the initiative of Napoleon I as a continuation of the ''Place Royale'', is {{convert|1800|m}} long. The panoramic view from the boulevard extends beyond the hills of [[Gelos]] and [[Jurançon]] to include the [[Pic d'Anie]] at {{convert|2504|m}}, the [[Pic du Midi de Bigorre]] at {{convert|2865|m}} which is topped with an astronomical observatory known worldwide for the quality of its [[sun|solar]] and [[planet]]ary photographs ([[NASA]] used it to prepare for the [[Apollo program|Apollo]] missions), the [[Pic du Midi d'Ossau|Midi d'Ossau]] at {{convert|2884|m}} is of [[Volcano|volcanic]] nature and of distinctive and symbolic shape, as well as [[Balaïtous]] at {{convert|3146|m}} and the [[Vignemale]] at {{convert|3298|m}}, the highest peak in the French Pyrenees. One of the peculiarities of this avenue overlooking the [[Pyrenees]] is the presence of plates of orientation, allowing an alignment with a lightning rod on a factory chimney below, for recognizing the great peaks of the mountain range.

{{Main|{{Interlanguage link|Rue du Maréchal-Joffre (Pau)|fr|3=Rue du Maréchal-Joffre (Pau)|lt=Rue du Maréchal-Joffre}}}}
*The ''Rue du Maréchal-Joffre'' connects the Château Quarter to ''Place Clemenceau'', it was first named ''Grande Rue'' and helped Pau to expand eastward at the end of the Middle Ages. The street assured freedom of movement for traffic as much as it helped to distribute the housing. The large houses of the parliamentarians and notables, from the different eras, can show their façades or give a more discreet entry to the rear of the houses. The [[revenue house]]s, smaller but just as numerous, punctuate the blocks with the succession of their bays. The merchant past is recalled by the presence of the arches of the ''Place de la Vieille-Halle'' (''Place Reine-Marguerite''). The ''Rue du Maréchal-Joffre'' is now fully paved and pedestrianised, after work undertaken between 2011 and 2012.

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File:Rue Serviez de Pau.jpg|''Rue Serviez''
File:Rue Joffre de Pau.JPG|{{Interlanguage link|Rue du Maréchal-Joffre (Pau)|fr|3=Rue du Maréchal-Joffre (Pau)|lt=''Rue du Maréchal-Joffre''}}
File:Boulevard des Pyrénées Pau 5.JPG|The arches of the ''[[Boulevard des Pyrénées]]''
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==== Typical districts ====
[[File:Chateau Quartier, Pau.JPG|thumb|left|The Château Quarter in the rain]]
*The Château Quarter: The historic [[Quarter (urban subdivision)|quarter]] of Pau in the narrow old lanes, which gives the quarter a medieval appearance.
*The Hedås Quarter: An old quarter which was built in a ravine which previously crossed a stream, in the heart of the historic city.
{{Main|{{Interlanguage link|Quartier du Hédas|fr}}}}
*The Trespoey Quarter: A very wooded area with many 19th century English-style villas. It is the area of the city of the more bourgeois, historically upmarket. The most prestigious hotels in the city are now here,{{citation needed|date=May 2019}} such as the ''Villa Navarre'' and the ''Beaumont''.
{{Main|{{Interlanguage link|Trespoey|fr}}}}