Horizons http://boulevard-des-pyrenees.pireneas.fr/en 2021-10-14T15:24:27+02:00 Pyrenees Boulevard Direction System 2013-03-21T01:24:00+01:00 2013-03-21T01:24:00+01:00 http://boulevard-des-pyrenees.pireneas.fr/en/systeme-boulevard Kathrin K.HENTSCHEL@agglo-pau.fr <div class="feed-description"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>All along the railing of the Pyrenees Boulevard of Pau, in the part located between the Royal Place and Beaumont Park</strong></span>, are installed 52 plates of metal which are used as marks toward the mountains.</p> <div class="angled"><img src="images/accueil/photo_jcp_boulevard_cheminee02.bmp" border="0" alt="" /><br /> </div> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>The lightning conductor located on the chimney of the Tramways factory</strong></span>, a place that houses today the Community Archives and the Heritage section of the André Labarrère media library, is used as a  point aimed by all the plates.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>To spot precisely a mountain top</strong></span>, each plate is surmounted by a notch directly cut on the railing.<br />The number of the sign, the name of the aimed site as well as the altitude for a top or the distance to join Pau from a village are engraved on each plate.</p> </div> <div class="feed-description"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>All along the railing of the Pyrenees Boulevard of Pau, in the part located between the Royal Place and Beaumont Park</strong></span>, are installed 52 plates of metal which are used as marks toward the mountains.</p> <div class="angled"><img src="images/accueil/photo_jcp_boulevard_cheminee02.bmp" border="0" alt="" /><br /> </div> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>The lightning conductor located on the chimney of the Tramways factory</strong></span>, a place that houses today the Community Archives and the Heritage section of the André Labarrère media library, is used as a  point aimed by all the plates.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>To spot precisely a mountain top</strong></span>, each plate is surmounted by a notch directly cut on the railing.<br />The number of the sign, the name of the aimed site as well as the altitude for a top or the distance to join Pau from a village are engraved on each plate.</p> </div>