Bourg des Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in the region of New Aquitaine, Laruns takes place forty kilometers from Pau, near the Spanish border. Integrated in the Pyrenees National Park, the town is also located on the edge of the Hautes-Pyrénées, in the Ossau valley.
Old dependency of the bailiwick of Ossau, Laruns knew a human occupation since Prehistory, thanks to the presence of tribes of hunter-gatherers and then breeders. For a long time agricultural city, the municipality knew an important development in XVIIe century with the access to the industry of the mines and quarries of marble. Under the influence of Napoleon III and his wife, Empress Eugenie, Laruns turns in the nineteenth century to hydrotherapy and tourism hot springs, to which are added the winter sports resorts opened in the course of the twentieth century.
Even today, the town of Laruns continues to attract outdoor enthusiasts and lovers of natural leisure.