Laugh

Riez ( Riès in Occitan Of Provence) is a Commune Frenchwoman, located in the department of the Alp-of-High-Provence and the area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure.

Its inhabitants is called Riézois.

Geography

The hillock formed by the Saint-Maxime mount dominates three valleys which meet with the confluence of two rivers to the modest flow, but which played a strategic role for the development of Laugh: the Colostre, which joined the the Verdon with Saint-Martin-of-Bromines, and its affluent, the Auvestre.

Laugh is located thus at the crossing of the historical roads which connect the Alps (via Digne) and the valley of the Durance (via Valensole) to the high VAr and Aix-en-Provence. Touched by the disaffection of these transportation routes at last century, it constitutes today a modest agglomeration of importance whose economy rests mainly on tourism.

Vacation resort in summer, Riez benefits indeed from its situation in the middle of the Regional natural park of the Verdon.

History

Its successive names are Colonia Julia Augusta Apollinarium Reiorum , Alebaece Reiorum Appollinarium (1st century), Reis Appolinaris (4th century), Reios (5th century).

Antiquity

Laugh is the old capital of the Reii , Gallic Peuple which occupied the Saint-Maxime hillock before the Roman conquest. Laugh was also the capital of the " Albices " , kind of federation of alpine people to which belonged the Reii . The Romains found a colony (the Colonia Julia Augusta Apollinarium Reiorum ) in the plain, which becomes then one of the thirteen cities of the Narbonnaise, which enables him to become an important center. It profits in particular from construction, in the year 3 after J. - C., of a way which connects it to Aix via Draguignan, and which crosses the the Verdon in Garruby.

Its episcopal see, of which saint Prosper was --> the first bishop was, perhaps, Maxime in 434, as its situation privileged with the crossroads between three valleys on one of the major roads connecting the Alps to low Provence then enabled him to preserve this importance during all Middle Ages.

The Middle Ages

It accommodated two Concile S in 439 and 1285.

At the 10th century, juniors by the Viscounts of Marseilles seize Laugh and build a castle there. These noble is called the princes de Riez .

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • Baptistry : it is dated from the Life, even of Ve century. Built with ancient materials in re-employment, it belonged to a first cathédral group destroyed today. Comparable with the Baptistry of Frejus, in the VAr, it is of octagonal plan registered in a construction of square plan; four absidioles, of which one contains the furnace bridge, are grafted on the cut sides and are inserted in masonry, without making covered outside. Eight ancient columns of granite surmounted by Corinthian capitals of marble, laid out in circle, surround the baptismal tank, of which there remain only remains. The cupola of the building was remade in XIIe century.
  • ancient Colonnade : located near Colostre, four Roman columns, with the barrels of gray granite surmounted by Corinthian white marble capitals, still support an architrave. They are the last vestiges of a temple dedicated to high Apollon towards the end of Ier century a. J. - C.
  • Old city: it offers a typical architecture of high Provence, in which narrow streets are bordered by the coloured frontages of the houses of Master. Some of these last still shelter several gypseries of XVe and XVIe centuries. Y to penetrate by the door Ewer or the door Saint-Grounds (or Sanson) makes it possible to admire the remainders of the old ramparts of XVIe century, to which also the tower of the clock belonged.
  • Vault Saint-Maxime : on the height which sheltered the oppidum of Reii draws up a vault of the XVIIe century, whose origins would go back to the first bishop of the city.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Articles of Wikipédia

External bonds

  • Official site of the Town hall of Laugh
  • Riez on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Riez on the site of INSEE
  • Riez on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Laugh on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plan on Laugh on Mapquest

Sources

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