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Camaret-sur-Aigues, France (No. 2)

The Ravelin

Many fortified villages had revelins (or ravelins) to defend the main entrance.

This former guardhouse was originally composed of two towers. A vault was added in 1683 to allow the clock to be installed.

The Ravelin was the only way to pass through carts, as the other gates of the village were too narrow.

In 1696 the building collapsed and was rebuilt in 1708. At the same time, the Town Hall was built between the gate and the rampart, which remained so until the 1930s.

In 1750, after another collapse, a wrought-iron bell tower was erected to support a bell, which is now listed as a historical monument.

At the beginning of the twentieth centuryone of the two towers of the Ravelin was used as a prison for petty theft perpetrators.

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Samedi 16 septembre, visite guidée du centre historique du Soler à l'occasion des Journées du Patrimoine

Samedi 16 septembre, visite guidée du centre historique du Soler à l’occasion des Journées du Patrimoine

Dans le cadre des Journées Européennes du Patrimoine, la ville du Soler vous invite à une visite guidée du centre historique sur le thème Du Moyen Age à l’aube de la IIIème République avec Michelle ROS-PERNELLE, Directrice du service des archives municipales de Perpignan et Alain CAMBILLAU, Conseiller Municipal de la ville du Soler délégué au patrimoine et au territoire.

Cette ballade…

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Camaret-sur-Aigues, France (No. 1)

Camaret-sur-Aigues is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

The official name of the commune, defined by the INSEE Official Geographical Code, is Camaret-sur-Aigues.

However, the name "Camaret-sur-Aygues" or simply "Camaret" is sometimes used, without any official character.

The commune of Camaret-sur-Aigues is located 6.5 kilometres north-east of the city of Orange.

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Camaret-sur-Aigues, France (No. 4)

But this square is also intended to welcome tourists. From the outset, the town hall has worked with the Aygues Ouvèze en Provence Community of Communes to ensure that these places are a means of promoting our tourist assets and our local productions. This is how the idea of the Maison des Vins et des Produits du terroir and a bicycle room was born.

This square, by its history, by the quality of the works and developments that have just been carried out there, by the place of tourist reception and the enhancement of our local wine and agricultural productions, is rooted in our Provençal identity.

This is why the City Council approved the proposal made by Mayor Philippe de Beauregard to name this new communal space: Place des Félibres.

The Félibrige movement was founded in 1854, on 11 May, the feast of Saint Estelle, by seven young Provençal poets and writers: Frédéric Mistral, Joseph Roumanille, Théodore Aubanel, Jean Brunet, Paul Géra, Anselme Mathieu and Alphonse Tavan.

The founders wanted to turn it into a literary movement, an academy, a philosophy, a militant school at the service of the culture and language of Provence and the langue d'Oc, as Mistral had resolved at a very young age (quote): "I resolved: firstly, to revive, to revive in Provence the feeling of belonging that I saw being annihilated under the false and unnatural education of all the schools; secondly, to bring about this resurrection by the restoration of the natural and historical language of the country, against which the schools are all waging a war to the death; thirdly, to restore the vogue to the Provençal language by the influx and flame of divine poetry."

The inauguration of this Place des Félibres took place on July 13, 2021 in the presence of more than 400 people.

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Camaret-sur-Aigues, France (No. 3)

 Place des Félibres

These places, which used to be called "Place de la Poste", are steeped in history. Connoisseurs of Camare's past know that it was here that the old hospital of the town was located, whose existence is attested by the archives as early as the sixteenth century and which then became, at the end of the nineteenth century, a hospice for the elderly which operated until the first half of the last century with a reputation for quality establishment, run by devoted nuns. In 1914, our local historian, Constant Latour, was able to write on this subject: "Let people who are impatient to inherit avoid placing their old people in the hospice of Camaret; it would be the ruin of their lust. They would become centenarians."

These buildings later housed a communal school that some Camaretois knew.

A few buildings are the last witnesses of these former occupations.

It is therefore an understatement to say that the town hall has taken the time to reflect and mature this redevelopment project to keep in this place an authenticity, an identity and a roots of Camarete and Provence.

At the beginning of the renovation of this square in 2021, the town hall of Camaret wanted to consult, well in advance, the architect of the buildings of France. Accompanied by their architect, the discussions were arduous and the negotiations difficult. Finally, with a few concessions from the town hall, this Provençal square project was able to come to fruition.

This square is now a place of meeting and conviviality for Camaretoises of all generations. The municipality regularly organises events and festivities in the summer.

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