Marguerittes

Marguerittes , in Occitan Margarido , is a common French, located in the department of the Gard and the area Languedoc-Roussillon. Its inhabitants are the marguerittois.

Geography

Marguerittes is a commune, and chief town of canton, located in the suburbs of Nimes, with 5 kilometers in the North-East.

History

The oldest indices of human occupation in Marguerittes go back to prehistory. The plain marguerittoise was then a hunting preserve, gathering and fishing because of the presence of Marécage S, source S and Rivière S. At the time Roman, the plain and part of the Garrigue of Marguerittes were the attic of the town of Nimes. What explains the presence of many villae dispersed on its territory. Thus, Marguerittes, small village strengthened with a castle, ramparts and several houses, were surrounded in the plain of hamlets very populated like Agarme, Couloures, Saint-Gilles, Quart, Luc, Costabalen. Some authors affirm that Marguerittes was initially a villa indicated by the name of Virgelosa which means “planted place of wicker”. It would have been created with the site of the current town hall. Marius Aurelus Fuivius, former consul of Rome and grandfather of the emperor Antonin, built the villa among those of other notable. As it was most sumptuous, the term Virgelosa was gradually replaced by that of Margarita (the Perle). The origin of Margarita is probably related to the Aqueduc Roman which brings water of the fountain of the Eure (Uzès) to Nimes by famous the Pont of the Gard and which crosses the territory of Marguerittes to the foot of the hills. But, according to the files, there exists another Roman aqueduct called " Rétrograde" who brought back part of the water received by Nimes, the surplus of the public thermal baths and other fountains of Nemausus, to feed a Gallo-Roman villa. This city, destroyed by the invaders, was replaced by the castle, cradle of Seigneur S until the French revolution.

Through the centuries, the place kept its prestigious name. Thus, was born the city from Marguerittes, which changed several times of orthography before taking the name that we know to him.

Primarily rural until the Years 1960 (2 000 inhabitants approximately), it knew since a very fast expansion because of its proximity of Nimes of which it constitutes residential suburbs today.

Administration

Demography

Economy

Places and monuments

  • Oppidum de Roquecourbe: strengthened habitat. Ages of Iron I and II.
  • Roquecourbe: Gallo-Roman layer.
  • Cantelon: Gallo-Roman building.
  • Beaulieu: building and Gallo-Roman cemetery. Habitat of Old of Iron I.
  • Church of Couloures: Gallo-Roman vestiges.
  • Garne and Deves: old villages of the Early middle ages and ruins of antiques Roman villas.
  • Old church of the 15th century altered at the 17th century: two spans, three naves with large cylindrical stones.
  • Ruins of the Saint-Gilles vault of the 11th century: pure Romance style.
  • Mézeirac: Gallo-Roman tombs and steles.
  • Traced Roman aqueduct of Nimes with Uzès.
  • the “combe of Burgundian”: in 1989, a violent one fire devastated the hills dominating Marguerittes. This catastrophe put at the day a very important unit the capitelles ones and constructions out of dry stones built by the rachalants of, with the locality “the combe of Burgundian”. The works of stone dries were rehabilitated according to the ancestral techniques and certain replanted spaces of vines, olive-trees, fruit trees like formerly.
Since 2002, a course of interpretation makes discover with the walkers what was the life here and in particular the Garrigue evolved/moved, under the influence of the men, of Antiquity at our days. Length of 1,9 kilometer, it conceals astonishing vestiges of this close connection and building work of the landscape carried out by the Rachalans which they had with surrounding nature. The panels laid out on this circuit make it possible to better include/understand this forgotten lifestyle, the techniques of construction of our dry stone inheritance, the ingeniousness of the setting in culture of the scrubland and our environment in perpetual evolution. A varietal academy also makes it possible to better know the olive-tree.

Personalities related to the commune

Isabelle Guislain: Corresponding Midi Libre

See too

  • Common of Gard

External bonds

  • Official site of the town hall of Marguerittes
  • Marguerittes on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Marguerittes on the site of INSEE
  • Marguerittes on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Marguerittes on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Marguerittes on Mapquest
  • Site of the Sporting Agreement Marguerittoise
  • Official site of the Social center of Marguerittes

Random links:Pont de Fragnée | Pinterville | National park of Mathikettan Shola | Bruce Bilson | Inta | Dennis_Danell