Aubeterre-on-Drone

Aubeterre-on-Drone is a Commune Frenchwoman, located in the department of the Charente and the area Poitou-Charentes. Its inhabitants are called the aubeterriens and aubeterriennes .

Geography

The commune is located on the Dronne. It appears among the most beautiful villages of France.

History

In September 1346, the count de Derby seizes the city (Guerre One hundred Year old).

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The most extraordinary monument of Aubeterre is the underground church Midsummer's Day, known as church monolith, dug in the cliff which dominates the Drone. The principal nave rises with 20 meters under vault. With 15 meters in height, the nave is bordered on three on its sides by a gallery which one reaches by a staircase cut in the rock. This rupestral church contains a single whole with a stone reliquary, jewel of the Romanesque art, a baptismal swimming pool and the crypt. Discovered in 1958, the Nécropole contains more than 80 Sarcophage S.

Other monuments:

the Saint-Jacob church whose frontage of style novel-saintongeais is classified historic building;
the castle dominating the valley of the Drone;
the tower of the Apostles (or turn Henri IV): it is in this tower that Henri IV would have slept the day before the Bataille of Coutras

Personalities related to the commune

Ludovic Trarieux

See too

Articles of Wikipédia

Old Common communes of Charente
of Charente

External bonds

Welcome in Aubeterre
Aubeterre-on-Drone on the site of the national geographical Institute
Aubeterre-on-Drone on the site of INSEE
Aubeterre-on-Drone on the site of Quid
Localization of Aubeterre-on-Drone on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Aubeterre-on-Drone on Mapquest

site of Football club Aubeterre

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