Cavaillon

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

Its inhabitants is called Cavaillonnais. The commune of Cavaillon belongs to the Regional natural park of Luberon.

“Capital” of the melon of the same name in spite of the fact that most of melons is produced today in Crau and is dispatched since Cavaillon.

Flowered cities and villages (2 flowers)

Denominations

Cavaillon is called in Occitan Provençal: Cavalhon according to the traditional standard or Cavaioun according to the Standard mistralienne.

Geography

The city is located in the valley of the Durance, with the foot of the Saint-Jacob hill which dominates the Plaine surrounding and faced the Luberon, to the Alpilles in south-west.

Transport

774 km of Paris and 24 km of Avignon.

Proximity of an exit of a7 highway.

SNCF railway station of center town.

De Cavaillon leaves a cycle track + 100 km towards Forcalquier.

Hydrography

The town of Cavaillon is built between the Durance and the Calavon (or Coulon)

Passage du Channel Saint-Julien

Geology

The plain: valley of the Durance, alluvial.

The Saint-Jacob hill is, like part of Luberon and Alpilles, a rock solid mass of limestone urgonien. 180 meters height for approximately 300 ha of surface.

History

The site is inhabited as of prehistory.

Cavaillon owes its name with the tribe of the Cavare S, which lived the hill Saint-Jacob (which overhangs the city and all the valley of the Durance) as of the Préhistoire.

During the Roman period, the city (" Cabellion" , Pagus Cavellicus), stage city on the Way Domitienne, strongly develop.

Episcopal see as of IVe.

Cavaillon belonged to the kingdom of Arles and the marquisat of Provence. Seigniory divided between the bishop and the Viscounts of Cavaillon then the Holy See.

In XIIe, Raymond VI of Toulouse being marquis de Provence, Cavaillon was implied in the Albigensian Crusade and passed to the hands of the Holy See to XIIIe.

Cité au XIIIe: " Cavallo".

In 1562, the city is taken and plundered by the baron of the Adrets.

Before the French revolution and the annexation of the States of the Pope (Avignon and Comtat Venaissin) by the France, Cavaillon was one of the four cities, with Avignon, Carpentras and It Isle-on-the-Sorgue, where existed a “career”: district reserved for the Jewish S of the Pope, and who was closed during the night.

November 14th 1887, strong earthquake.

August 12th, 1793 was created the department of Vaucluse, made up of the districts of Avignon and Carpentras, but also of those of Apt and Orange, which belonged to the Rhone delta, as well as canton of Sault, which belonged to the Low-Alps.

Heraldic

At least 2 blasonnements are brought back:

“Of azure, with a tower of Dextral money bell-tower with , and a crenelated Sinistral sand tower in the same way, built with , less high than the first, from which it is separated, the whole on a terrace of Sinople. ” (Malta-Brown, in illustrated France , volume V, 1884)

Gold

“, to the lion of blued sand and language of mouths, the tail in the shape of blade is turned outwards, of three parts. ” (Malta-Brown, in illustrated France , volume V, 1884)

Administration

The Commune is member of the Community of communes Provence Luberon Durance, based in Cavaillon, and which gathers, in addition to Cavaillon, the communes of Horse-White, Mérindol and the Taillades.

Demography

Places and monuments

Archaeologically rich, it includes/understands the entry of old the Roman Thermes which one can admire the arcs of intersection (of Ier century, moved with XIXe and gone up on the principal place of the city).

There is, inter alia, remarkable old a Cathédrale (Notre Dame Cathedral and Saint Véran of the 11th century), a Synagog (the Synagog of Cavaillon was built in XVe, then rebuilt 18th century), a Chapelle of hermitage (Saint-Jacob Vault of the 12th century), other vaults (of which the Vault of the Hôtel-Dieu of 1755) and the Museum of the Hospital.

The Saint-Jacob hill offers a sight overhanging the city. one observes also the Monts of Vaucluse, the Luberon, the chain of the Alpilles, the Valley of the Durance with melts of them the Mont Ventoux and laces of Montmirail…

Economy and local life

Small town with any trade, several specialized large surfaces and supermarkets. The Marché is Monday morning.

Good utility service: Cribs, schools, colleges, MJC, multi-media Library (Media library the Durance), theater, municipal Academy of music approved, theater, etc

The ground around Cavaillon is rather rich and water is rather close to surface what supported a development of agriculture (Melon, Pommes, Poires, Cerises, etc).

Presence of a M.I.N. (market of national interest) with a market (space flexible from 1.000 to 5.000 m ²).

Social

4 companies manage 2500 social housing.

Cavaillon has a house of Employment and Economic development, as well as a Communal center of Social action (C.C.A.S.)

Recycling and ecology

1973, creation of the SIEUCEUTOM, Intercommunity association for the Study, the Construction and Exploitation of a Treatment plant of the Household refuse, which gathers 7 communes today.

Inter-commune Dechetery (with Gash and White Horse).

The professionals can profit from the services (paying) of a processing center of urban waste.

Education

Cavaillon profits from 8 nursery schools (Marie Signoret, Louis Leprince Ringuet, Camille Claudel, Jean Moulin, the Hill, Ratacans, Vignères, Saint Charles), 8 elementary schools (Castil Blaze, Charles de Gaulle, Joliot Curie, the Hill, Ratacans, Jean Moulin, Vignères, Saint Charles), 4 colleges (Paul Gauthier, Clovis Hugues, Saint Charles and Rosa Parks) and two colleges (College Ismael Dauphin and college of vocational training Alexandre Dumas).

To also note the presence of an Orientation and Information center (C.I.O.).

Sport

Cavaillon is a city have many clubs and sports equipment:

  • 2 Swimming pools of which a glaze and one in the open air

  • 8 Gymnasia
    • Elementary school Jean Moulin (Type A)
    • Help center (Standard A)
    • Paul Gauthier (Standard B) + (Plate)
    • THESE Clovis Hugues (Standard B) + (Plate)
    • Condamines (Standard C) + (Plate)
    • Grenouillet (Martial Sports)
    • Ismaël Dolphin District council
    • Alexandre Dumas District council/Town hall
  • 15 grounds (Foot/Rugby):
    • Stage Pagnetti 1 ground
    • Stage Hippodrome 7 grounds
    • Stage Jean Alessandri 3 grounds
    • Stage Of Vignères 2 grounds
    • Stage Paul Gauthier 1 ground
    • Stage Romance Jean 1 ground
    • Stage Lombard 1 ground
  • 12 Cours De Tennis (8 and 4 Cours) set out again on two clubs (Including 4 lit and 6 Cours Terre Battue)
With that is added a track Of Stunt bike (level main road), track of athletics, climbing (Cliff with St Jacques), bowling pitch (27 plays), a cycle-racing track, a hippodrome, etc

Health

Many general practitioners and specialists, several health care centres of which a center of radiography, the surgical center Holy Roch (clinical) and the inter-commune hospital (C.H.I.).

The C.H.I in its unit of Cavaillon has 252 beds distributed as follows:

  • Surgery: 45 beds
  • Intensive care: 4 beds
  • Medicine: complete hospitalization: 53 beds
Alternatives to the hospitalization:
  • hospitalization of day (3 places)
  • home medical care (4 places)
  • obstetric Gynecology 26 beds
  • Old people's home 57 beds (including 30 beds of medical cure)
  • Care of Long life 60 beds

Cavaillon in the popular culture

Cinema

The city was a decoration for:

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of Vaucluse

  • List of the bishops of Cavaillon

External bonds

  • Official site

  • Cavaillon on the site of the National Geographical Institute
  • Cavaillon on the site of INSEE
  • Cavaillon on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Cavaillon on a chart of France and communes bordering

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