Gallician
Localization
Gallician is a hamlet of the commune of Vauvert, located in the department of the
Gard and the
area Languedoc-Roussillon. Gallician is located into full Small
the Camargue on banks with the Channel of the Rhone at Sète
History
During all feudality, the marshes were the property of the Baron de Posquières-Vauvert but the inhabitants of the commune had there some rights of use (harvest of the reeds and fishing). In the years 1770-80, a family of Vauvert, the " family; Gallissian" a hut installed on the way of Saint-Gilles to Acute-Dead, in edge of the marshes to the junction of the ditch which arrives of the farmhouse of Beck. On the chart of Cassini of 1800, this ditch is named " Valley Gallissian" , which confirms the presence in this place of the properties of the Gallissian family. The creation of the ship canal at the end of the 18th century and the bridge supported the development of agricultural activities, artisanal and commercial in Gallissian. At the end of the 19th century the administrators of the land register modified the orthography of Gallissian in " Gallician". Source: article of Emile GUIGOU: " Gallissian and its canal" , Bulletin of the Company of History of Vauvert-Posquières, n°4, winter 1998, p.51-74.ISSN 1273-6805.
Geography
Approximately 1000 inhabitants. Gallician saw especially vine growing (AOC Costières of Nimes), principal activity to which one can however add fishing and the sagne, i.e. reed cuts it. Equipped with a marina and a nautical halt, Gallician is on banks of the Channel of the Rhone with Sète, channel allowing the circulation of the boats of tourism like barges.