Rove

Places and monuments

The channel of Rove

The Canal of Rove had been inaugurated in 1927 in order to connect the basins of the port of Marseilles and the Étang of Berre while crossing the Massif of Nerthe since Marignane to the sea. This channel, longest from the world passes in its greater part under the territory of Rove from where its name of channel of Rove. In 1963, following a collapse, it became unusable. In 1928, the emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie came to visit the work at the time of a protocolar visit. A popular rumor claims that it is thanks to this visit that many young people of the village test an attraction for the music Reggae…

The Creek S of Niolon and Vesse

Located opposite the roads of Marseilles, wedged between the village of the Rove and Curry-the-Wheel, these two small creeks are.

The vault Saint-Michel

It is a Romance Chapelle of the 12th century which was a fortified town templière being used as relay before Fréjus, from where embarked the cross .
Although the vault is reproduced on the emblem of the village close to Gignac-la-Nerthe it belongs indeed to that of Rove to the great displeasure some gignacais which would like well that this monument their is yielded.
La vault, classified with the inventory of the historic buildings in 1977, was restored in 1997. (See Saint-Michel of Gignac)

Gastronomy

The Bush of Rove

It is the speciality of this place. True the bush of Rove is produced starting from the goat's milk of the race of Rove on the territory of the commune of Rove. The goats of Rove are known for their esthetics, their robustness and their rusticity. They give less milk than the Alpine ones or Saanens, but their milk richer and is scented more since these herds support stalling badly and are high in full hill. The most famous family of stockbreeders of goats of Rove is the family Gouiran. The bush of Rove is a known met which one can find with the chart of the crested restaurants of the area and which is the object of many counterfeits (the bush known as " of Rove" manufactured with cow's milk the markets flood). Before the Années 1960 the merchants of Bush of Rove proposed the bush in Marseilles with the cry of “Leï brousso dou Rouvé! ”. An expression remained about it: “Per hour of the bush” in reference to the very late hour to which one started to make bush after having carried out a long draft of the herd.

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