THE TOWN OF PAU

PAU, SPORTING CITY
One would need a life "to try" all the sports practised in Pau, and still! One counts some more than seventy. And at their head, basketball, with this enthusiastic Béarn several times champion of France and Europe, that is a king in this Sport hall noticed for its architecture in all the old continent and even reproduced in China.

PAU, UNIVERSITY TOWN
Particularly famous in mathematics, physics, chemistry, social sciences, environment and regional planning, the university of Pau and the Countries of Adour accomodates 15 000 students. It counts three doctoral schools, twelve DEA and around fifty of research laboratories, including eight teams related to CNRS.

PAU, CULTURAL CITY
At Zenith, Pau inhabitants and visitors listen to Johnny Hallyday - He inaugurated the room in 1992 -, varieties, jazz or classical music. But it is not all: its innovating acoustic conch transforms the Zenith of Pau into a symphonic concert hall greeted by the professionals.
The national school of music and dance settled at the heart of an old convent. This set XIXth century end of the society of Marie Marie Repairing - its two cloisters and itsflorentine mosaics and its stained glasses - repurchased by the City expresses the municipal will to combine historical inheritance and contemporary equipment.

INDUSTRIAL, TECHNOLOGICAL, cultural or sporting... the contemporary buildings strew Pau. They testify to the rise of the third economic pole of the large - South-west and its "specialities": agriculture, aviation, petrochemistry, techniques of information and communication. And they deserve the turning.

PAU, TOWN OF EXCHANGES
Nine daily rotations with Paris, three with Lyon, and two with London. Monthly flights towards many European cities.
600 000 commercial passengers per year. The airport of Pau does not miss scale...

PAU, TOWN OF RESEARCH
They are some four thousand technicians and researchers who work in Pau in addition to world specialists in chemistry - heritage of the exploitation of gas of Lacq -, of the electronic computation, the hydrobiology or the vegetable genetics. A contemporary building to see: the Scientific and technical Center Jean Feger. Platform, world of the Total group Fina Elf for the exploration and the production of hydrocarbons, it brings together approximately two thousand employees.

PAU, CITY OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE VERY HIGH DEBIT
The Almighty debit: it is in Pau .Pilot city in Europe, the Béarn city is equipped with Pau Broadband Country with a powerful numerical network. As for the multi-media city, it accomodates the companiesthat are specialist in communication and information technologies in innovating,and protected buildings... and connected to the very high debit.

PAU, ADMINISTRATIVE CITY
Downwards of the boulevard of the Pyrenees, the building of the services of the general Council posts its modernity without disowning the omnipresent traces of the past.

PAU, GASTRONOMIC CITY
In a wink of eye to local passion for the gastronomy, in remembering - still one - good king Henri... The Boiled chicken, sculpture of Jean-Louis Magendie, lays, a terrestrial sphere in the center of the roundabout of the Commune.