Brantes

Brantes is a common French, located in the department of Vaucluse and the area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure.

The inhabitants of Brantes are the " Brantulois" and the " Brantuloises"

Geography

The village of Brantes is a village perched between the Mont Ventoux in the south and the Drome in north.

Access

Two roads cross the commune on a East-West axis: The secondary road 41 in the north of the village, on the height and the secondary road 40 in the south, downwards in edge of Toulourenc. Between the two, allowing to reach the borough, the secondary road 136.

The commune of Brantes is crossed by several paths of great excursion, the GR. 4, GR. 9 and GR. 91, and is used as starting point for many excursions on marked out paths.

Relief

The village is perched between 500 and 600 meters of altitude with to the top the bar of the Charles (836 meters) then more in north the mountain of Geine (1267 meters).

In the south, a more or less broad valley where Toulourenc runs (from where the name of " valley of Toulourenc") then across the valley of Toulourenc, the septentrional slope of the Mount Ventoux and the collar of the Storms (1829 meters). The Ventoux Mount is classified " Reserve of Biosphère" by UNESCO since 1994.

Geology

The Ventoux Mount consists of massive limestones Urgonien S blanchâtres, of age Crétacé inferior, and very lights (from where the impression of a snow-covered top). Its important rise comes from compression due to the formation in the chain pyrénéo-of Provence, now disappeared. This compression bent and overlaps the rocks of the mountain on the grounds more in north, during the Crétacé superior and the beginning of the tertiary .

The valley of Toulourenc, as for it, has a ground of quaternary composed of riverwashes, colluviums and fall.

Hydrography

Source of Fontnouvelle.

Low Passage du Toulourenc au of the village.

History

Cité in 1163 under the name of " Brantule" and in 1254 under " of Brantulis".

Seigniory of the Beams at the 12th century, acquired by the apostolic Room in 1320 then set up in marquisat in 1674.

1697, the marquisat is bought by Pierre of the White, lord of Buisson.

During the wars of religion, the Protestant occupy the village.

End of the 20th century, of impassioned are at the head put to restore the village.

Heraldic

Administration

Demography

Source: Cassini

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Economy

Very a small village living of a little Tourism (a Chambre of hosts) of which a local craftsman who manufactures santons and of the potteries, of breeding caprine (" Lamb of Ventoux") and of factory of cheeses, manufacture of honey, some orchards of almond trees, culture of the lavender and plants aromatic.

Local life

The Communauté of communes of the Valley of Toulourenc takes care of the collection and the processing waste of the households and comparable waste.

No the pharmacy nor of particular equipment of health.

Education

The village of Brantes has a school, located in edge of the old village.

Sports

No the particular utility service except the footpaths and installations various with the accesses of Toulourenc.

Sports practiced: Drive out, fishing, hiking.

Worship

It is a catholic village of tradition (parish church Saint Sidoine, vaults Our-Lady-of-Piety and Saint Jean-Baptiste and cemetery) in spite of a catch of the borough by the Protestants at the time of the wars of religion. It depends on the Diocèse of Avignon

Places and monuments

Brantes is a charming village with the lanes in calades, the arched passages, the old doors and the old stone-built houses.

Vestiges of a feudal castle of the lords of the Beams: sections of wall and 2 cisterns.
Parish church Holy Sidoine of 1684 with interior decoration in trompe-l'oeil.
Vault Our-Lady-of-Pity of the Penitent white, vault of the beginning of the 18th century now used like point information and to present the many work completed by local association for the restoration of the site.
Vault Saint-Roch.
Vault Saint-Jean-Baptist (12th).
Oratorical of the Sacred Heart, Saint-Joseph and Saint-People (19th).
Old laundrette.
Bridge with an arch, style " romain" , of the 13th century.

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