Javols

Javols is a common French, located in the department of the Lozere and the area Languedoc-Roussillon. Its inhabitants is called Javolais.

Geography

History

Javols was called formerly Anderitum. It was the Gallo-Roman capital of a Gallic tribe: the Gabales. They gave their name to Javols and its country Gévaudan. The name of Anderitum meant " on the gué" , or " close to the gué". It is at the end of Antiquity that the name of the " city; AD gabalum" appears (and which will become gabouls in language of oc later) what meant that the city was still then the capital of Gabales. This phenomenon is rather frequent as a Gaulle Roman (for example Tours, which was called Caesarodunum, was " rebaptisée" Turones, which meant at Turons).

Anderitum was at the time a stage of the Roman Voie (cf. The Table of Peutinger), which moved towards Segodunum, through the Aubrac, while passing by Roman the station known as AD Silanum and by Saint-Like Olt.

Archaeological excavations begin in 1828 and until in the years 1950-1960, they are local scholars who directed the excavations on the site of Javols (for example the Peyre abbot in the years 1950). From 1996 to 2004, under the direction of Alain Ferdière, the excavations began again in order to evaluate the potential of the site: to delimit the various districts, to include/understand the organization of the city, to find the limits of the city, etc Since 2005, a new multiannual program of excavations, directed by Alain Trintignac, archeologist of the General advice of Lozere, are always in hand. Not only the surveys of evaluation of the site continue but a great survey (approximately 400 M ²) was open on the ground of the State (Tired Pessos Northern), with for objective a thorough comprehension of the monumental heart of the city (in particular of the black cotton soils which recover the vestiges and which show an agrarian recovery starting from bottom empire).

Heraldic

Administration

Demography

Tourist monuments and places

Archaeological excavations

Swimming pool of the Western in front of the church
Installations of banks along the river and always visible always visible thermal baths, on a private ground.
Site of the theater whose cavea (wall of the steps) is followed by the road.
Piece behind the church belonging until May 2007 to the State (Inscription with the additional inventory of the Historic buildings) and in the course of transfer to the Area Languedoc Roussillon.

Remarkable buildings and places

Old mills: wood of the Mount, of Long Prat and mill below the farm of the Bridge (one finds it on many postcards)
Civil architecture: castle of Barry, castle of the Wood of the Mount, Closes Bridge.
Rock of Lou Cougobre
Dolmen of Hermet

Religious buildings

Church devoted in 1895. The medieval church having been dismounted and its site currently being under the fountain of the place. (The primitive church was mentioned in the will of Aldebert II, bishop of Mende, in 1109.)

Museums

A Showroom presenting on two levels the two hundred years discoveries of excavations. Opening to the holidays of Spring and estival. On go for the groups all the year. Special animations were conceived for the school ones.

Others

Hamlets/Localities:

Aubigeyrette
Hut (it)
Barry (it)
Bel Air
Beautiful Sight the Bridge
Besseyres
Bessils
Bessière (It)
Wood of the Mount (it)
Brunels (them)
Chabannes
Cheylaret (It)
Civeyrac
Combe (it)
Combettes (Them)
Cross-country race (It)
Deves (it)
Goutal (it)
Hermet (It)
Lescurette
Longuessagne
Farmhouse (it)
new Farmhouse (It)
Farmhouse Astruc (It)
Mazet (it)
Montenchos (it)
Montet (It)
Mills of Longuessagne (them)
Orbagnac
New Oustal (It)
Pleasure
Prat-length
Réal (it)
Regimbal (It)
Rivers of Volpillac (them)
Sagnette (it)
Salhens (them)
Tiracols
Tuzet (it)
Valat (it)
Volpillac

Demonstrations

votive Festival of August 15th

In the beginning, this festival was organized by the sisters of Javols. It was about a village fair which took place around the church. Now, it is the festival committee which organizes it: plays on the place of the village, tombola, folk dances, plays inter-boroughs, contest of game of bowls, meal aligot-sausages (the evening), fireworks and ball.

See too

Common of Lozere

External bonds

Town hall
Museum of Javols

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