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History
With
past rich in patrimony and in culture, Graveson
conjugates Perfectly
a strong identity of typically Provenþal village
with one Synonymic
reception of human heat and authenticity.
Between
Montagnette and Alpilles, the landscapes surroundings
do not miss of Reliefs
and of characters. Detailed searches ,
situated between Graveson and Barbentane,
in border of Montagnette, show of the activity
of it Man
in this zone, dices the prehistory.
Bases
of stone walls let suppose a more significant presence,
Coinciding
with period Gallo-Romaine, who will last until V
° siecle.
Graveson
was already on an important road axis, a famous
way Caught,
which connected Arles in Lyon. The
name of Graveson seems dices IX ° in the Charters
of the Country of Avignon. As
many village in this time, Graveson was protected
by one Ramparts,
they disappeared at the beginning of XIX °.The
feudal castle, a facade of which there is only the
North, situated in the center of Village,
lived at the rate of the Lords of the Provençal
nobility.
The
Big Gate Portal, which shelters the current office
of tourism, is the symbol of this Time.
It was the main entrance of the village. The
Church built before XI ° siécle on a
place of antique cult, was Several
times reshaped and enlarged, while occupying the
same place Since
its origin.
Graveson
was always attached to the religion and to the cult,
the church is always Very
present in the traditions. It is here that takes
place the mass of Saint Eloi
during the holiday of the same name which takes
place in July, or the midnight mass And
the ceremony of Pastrage. Graveson is a village
where the past gets involved of Present,
and where the every day life cultivates
certain art of living.
To
see.
- L’église
Romane construite avant le XIème siècle sur un lieu de culte antique, plusieurs
fois remaniée et agrandie, elle occupe depuis son origine le même emplacement.
Entièrement restaurée en 2001.
- La
Roubine et ces platanes centenaires, cœur du village.Le
Grand Portail, vestige des anciens remparts.
- Le
Château de BreuilLa
Montagnette et l’Abbaye de Frigolet.
- Le
jardin des quatre saisons, jeux pour enfants, collections de viornes. Accés
libre, horaires et plan disponibles en Mairie.
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