Cruas

Cruas is a common French, located in the department of the Ardèche and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Its inhabitants is called Cruassiens.

Geography

Located at the foot of cliffs on Right Bank of the Rhone, between Montélimar and Valence, not far from Deprived, Cruas probably owes its name with the torrent which emerges there: Crule.

Administration

History

In 804, an abbey was created by monks Benedictines. To protect itself from the invasions and the floods, the monks built in height a vault which will become the castle of the monks.

A very beautiful basilica, whose certain elements go back to the VIII° century, rises in the center of the village. With Romance style, covered by a roof of roofing stones (stones punts), it is in particular decorated in the apse with a mosaic with Byzantine style. Splendid vaults and remarkable crypt, the chapitaux ones of the columns are decorated sculptures of a great interest. One could see a large table there being marked " Gift of the empereur" (Napoleon I°) The staircases of access were decorated Roman milliary stones.

At XVIe and XVIIe centuries, the city undergoes the attacks of the huguenots.

Administration

Cruas belongs to the community of communes of Bars-Coiron

Resources

Until the medium of the 20°siècle, in addition to a spinning mill, a boarding, a textile company of weaving was illustrated in particular by the manufacture of silk velvet.

Today:

Cement factories Lafarge (ex Chaux and Ciments Valette-Viallard)
Nuclear plant of Cruas
Cement factory Calcia (ex French Ciments)

Personalities related to the commune

Pierre Vallette-Viallard, native of Cruas, Appointed of the Ardeche (1919 - 1924) (1928 - 1942)

External bonds

http://www.cruas.com/

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