Caussols

Caussols ( Caussous in Occitan Of Provence) is a common French, located in the department of the the Alpes-Maritimes and the area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure. Its inhabitants is the Caussolois .

Geography

Caussols is a commune of the back-country grassois to 23 km of the Mediterranean as the crow flies (40 km by the road). The center of the village is with 1130 meters of altitude. It is located on a plate Karstique dug many Aven S and caves (the plate of Caussols). This plate is overhung in the south by the Adhesive of the Masons (1417 meters) and Haut-Montet (1335 meters), itself surmounted by the radar of the visible civil aviation since the seaside. At north is located the plate of Calern (1458 meters with the Signal of Calern) on which is the Observatory of Calern and with the west the small valley of Nans where the low point of the commune (895 meters) is. The plate of Caussols in itself is consisted of the plain of rocks in the South (Claps) and of a plain of meadows and cultures in the center, crossed by a network of brooks flowing in Embut de Caussols.

Caussols is surrounded by the communes of Gourdon (the Alpes-Maritimes), the Bar-sur-Loup, Saint-Vallier-with-Thiey, Andon (hamlet of Channels) and Cipières.

The climate is contrasted: the summer is hot and dry, the cold winter, dry but regularly snow-covered, wet spring and the very wet autumn thanks to a few annual days of very intense Mediterranean precipitations which result in an annual office plurality from 1200mm from precipitations.

History

The first settlement of Caussols would date from prehistory. One counts ten dry stone enclosure that the local tradition regards as Oppidum S and makes go back to the Bronze Age. Malheuresement these vestiges are difficult to date precisely. It should be noted that one finds traces of occupation of time Romans in some of these enclosure, as with the camp of the Lava, the collet of Adrech. The collectings around and in the medieval village of Villevielle gave ceramics going up to the Bronze Age and at the time Roman in addition to those of the Middle Ages and the modern time.

The first writings mentioning Caussols go back to the 12th century, time when the village depended on the Counts de Provence. The village then remained gathered around the church until 1640, time when it was burnt. The habitat then scattered on the plate in small farms. This dispersed habitat prevails still today; the only regroupings of dwellings are in a small center of the village around the church, the school, the town hall and the inn and in the hamlet of Claps in the West of the village.

The agriculture and the breeding, which prevailed largely until 1950 strongly regressed since, and there remain only some small-scale farmings and an ovine breeding of 2000 heads, which limits the recolonisation of the plate by the pines.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the most known building of Caussols is the Observatory of Calern, created in 1974 and located on the plate of Calern. In the past Geodynamic and Astronomical Research and Studies Center (CERGA), it now forms part of the Observatory of the Riviera.
the church Saint-Lambert dates from the 13th century and has a retable representing Christ surrounded by Lambert saint and saint Pons (15th century).
Claps, in the South of the plate, karstic plain covered with rocks carved by erosion, are strewn with Doline S and more than 400 pits and caves. Many a Borie S was built there with XVIIIe and 19th centuries like temporary habitat for the farmers and shepherds.
the plate is crossed by the GR4, which connects Royan (Charentes-Maritime) to Grasse (the Alpes-Maritimes). Caussols is the last village before Grasse on this route. Many marked out walks traverse the plates of Caussols and Calern.
Caussols is crossed by a way known as Roman which one can still see certain portions (more probably a way of shepherds dating from the Middle Ages).
the visit of Embut de Caussols is with the range of initial but informed speleologists.
the climate very particular, between Mediterranean and mountain, supported the development of an abundant and varied fauna and a flora. Vertebrate the most specific to the plate of Caussols is the viper of Orsini, which is present elsewhere in France only on the Ventoux Mount and some solid masses of Alp-of-High-Provence; its habitat is threatened by reafforestation of the plate. Many raptors can also be observed: Circaète Short-toed eagle, harrier, falcon, eagle,… The deer tribe, foxes, wild boars,… are abundant.

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