Visit the famous Catholic pilgrimage site of Lourdes on this two-day independent trip from Paris by TGV, France's high-speed train. This don't-miss independent trip takes you directly to Lourdes, which you can explore however you wish, and includes dinner, breakfast plus a convenient three-star hotel in central Lourdes. A beautiful city in the heart of the French Pyrenees mountains, Lourdes is famous for being the site of a local woman's apparition of the Virgin Mary, who appeared in a series of visions in 1858. You can attend one of the impressive sacrament processions, see the Statue of the Crowned Virgin in Rosary Square or visit the Grotto of Massabielle, where the apparitions took place.