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Plateau de Beille (Occitan: ''Plan de Belha'') is a ski resort in the Pyrenees. It is situated in the Ariège department, and in the region of the Midi-Pyrénées. The winter sports station lies at a height of . For a long time, this plateau was only a place of livestock, especially cattle. It has recently become the site of an important winter sports resort of the Pyrenees, mainly dedicated to the practice of cross-country skiing, with tracks between altitude. The ski station is located between Tarascon-sur-Ariège and Ax-les-Thermes, close to the Spanish border, and above the communes of Les Cabannes, Albiès and Vèbre. Road access to the plateau (the D522) starts from Les Cabannes. Moreover, the Plateau de Beille is a crossing point of the GR 10 hiking trail that crosses the Pyrenees from east to west. Finally, since 1998, the ascent from Les Cabannes to the plateau is regularly used as the final ascent of a stage in the Tour de France. The Plateau de Beille also has the attribute that all those who have won the stage at its summit subsequently won the Tour in Paris, except in 2011. ==Geography== The Plateau de Beille is bounded by two tributaries of the Ariège Valley, these being the to the west, and the Labail stream to the east.〔Ruisseau de Lavail, according to IGN maps〕 The plateau ends at the south by the Col de Finestres at where it passes the GR 10; to the north, the slope falls steeply to the Ariège Valley. If one considers the whole delimited area, it has benches with an altitude approximately between , on an area of about . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Plateau de Beille」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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