Lanarce

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

Geography

The village of Lanarce, crossed by a very attended road of Montélimar to the Puy-en-Velay, is symbolic system of the difficulty of the life in mountain ardéchoise. Built with more than thousand meters of altitude, it is the country of the Congère S and of the Marécage S. From the point of view of volcanicity, Lanarce is a site interesting for its Tourbière S established with the vertical of old craters of Maar.

History

Lanarce was born from the creation of inns and relay of horses during construction of the road between Velay and Vivarais at the 19th century.

It is also the village of a legendary curiosity, the Auberge of Peyrebeille, more known under the name of the red Auberge, theater of about fifty murder of travellers and which defrayed the legal chronicle in first half of the 19th century. The morbid history of this cursed inn is illustrated in film of Claude Autant-Lara, '' the Red Inn '' with Fernandel. Certain scenes of film were turned on the spot.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the Inn of Peyrebeille, also called the red Inn, is always visible and is used as museum recalling the appalling history of the massacres which took place there in first half of the 19th century.
the " firm of Bourlatier" testify to the architectural richness of the area. The frame of its barn with hay with its frame in the shape of turned over vessel is impressive. Inside can be held there projections, spectacles and conferences.

Economy

Lanarce is very famous for its pork-butchery of mountain.

Events

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Ardeche

External bonds

More on the history of l" Inn-Rouge"
Lanarce on the site of the national geographical Institute
Lanarce on the site of INSEE
Lanarce on the site of Quid
Localization of Lanarce on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Lanarce on Mapquest

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