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Geography

The commune of Saint-Martin-in Ardèche is located at the south-eastern extrème department of Ardeche and extends on 533 hectares. For the essence of Pointed Ranc, located upstream, in the Throats, to the village its territory is limited to midday by the river which gave its name to the department in 1793 and which marks on this level the border with the Gard and the commune of Aiguèze. Saint Martin's day depended besides on this one under the Old Mode. In the east and north, Saint Martin's day is bordering on the communes on Saint-Just-in Ardèche and on Saint-Marcel-Ardèche. The climate is moderate, close to the Mediterranean type there. In north and the east, on the slopes and about half of the surface of the commune, they are extents of garrigues and holm oaks. On some slopes of hills and the narrow plain which follows, that is to say on close to 300ha of agricultural surfaces used (S.A.U.), one counts approximately 170 ha of vines, about fifty hectares of cereals but less than 10 ha in orchards whereas the plantations of cherry trees made pre-war period the prosperity of the owners (Sources: Agricultural general census of the year 2000-S.C.E.E.S). The production of wine is of very high-quality, in particular in a.O.C " Coasts of Rhône" and " Coasts of the Rhone Village". The village was very early a crossing point for pilgrims and travellers. Since the second third of the XXe century, it is a vacation resort, particularly active, the municipality then places from there having multiplied the equipment and sructures of reception (public camp-sites of quality to which were added several different opened by private individuals, unloading dock for boats and canoes carrying out since Vallon the descent of the Ardèche river…, construction of a residence for elderly…). Since the realization of the " Tourist road of the Throats - RTGA" hundreds of thousands of visitors discover or revisit the region. The village is labellisé " Green station of Vacances" (2002). A bridge of stone connecting it to Aiguèze, built in 1895, having been carried by a rising, in 1900, a suspended bridge was opened with circulation in 1905 - and was officially inaugurated… in July 2005 (sources: Andre Montmard, Monograph of the commune in its river environment , Edition of the Library of Saint Martin's day May 2005).

History

Hamlet of fishermen and boatmen established on one of the fords allowing to cross the Ardeche (apart from the periods of raw), St-Martin " of Peyre" , on Pierre, depends on Aiguèze whose keep dominates the valley, therefore duchy of Uzès: little or not mention before beginning 16th century, with the erection of the castle of the Thicket by the close bishop of Fish ponds. The two communities have dependant destiny until the Revolution and with the creation of the departments: Aiguèze is in the Gard Canton of Pont-Saint-Esprit, Saint Martin's day of Pierre becomes St-Martin d' Ardèche in the department of the Source-of-the-Loire become the Ardèche canton of Borough-Saint-Andéol. The fishermen and boatmen are farmers, wine growers. As of the middle of the 20th century, the village is a small known vacation resort. After the War of 40, the installation of the valley of the Rhone, with the Donzère-Mondragon Channel then the installations of Marcoule and Eurodif, parallel to the opening through the scrubland of the Tourist Road of the Throats towards Vallon-Pont-d'Arc and the invention of the plastic canoes make of St-Martin a holiday place which makes multiply by ten its estival population and to settle many secondary residents. It is today the tourist center of the crossroads of the four departments, Ardèche, Gard, Drome and Vaucluse.

Administration

Successive mayors since 1900: ROBERT Alexis (1900-1901) SUAU Alphonse (1901-1908) NOVEL Paul (1908-1914) CHARMASSON Benjamin* (1914-1918)

City council man, replaces ROMANCE the Paul Mayor mobilized

SUAU Maurice (1919-1925) NOVEL Julien (1925-1956), mayor during 31 years, MONTMARD Andre (1956-1995), mayor during 39 years, HUMEZ Jean-Pierre, since 1995, re-elected in 2001. Saint-Martin-in Ardèche adheres to the Communauté Communes Of the Rhone to the Gorges of Ardeche .

Demography

On an exiguous territory of 550 ha - a village centers, two hamlets upstream: Barns, Sauze - the population St-martinoise caught up with and exceeded (approx. 700 hab. with semi-2006) that of its neighbor and stronghold Aiguèze. By retaliatory measure narquoise, and because St-Martin was often flooded by the risings of the Ardèche, Aiguézois call St-Martinois the " Hardening-quieù".

Places and monuments

House in which the surrealist painter max Ernst lived of 1938 to 1941, classified historic building (private)
Château of the Thicket: classified historic building (private)
the Gorges of Ardeche - unloading dock for the descents of the Throats in the canoe-kayaks
Entered of the " Natural reserve of the Throats of Ardèche" (extent on the eleven communes which borders them on the two departments)
Aven Miller (one of the innumerable caves decorated with Low-Ardeche, where has be discovered a stone carved - andromorphe - at present exposed to the Archaeological Museum of Orgnac-l' Aven)
Dolmen (ruin) with the district of Layer (there are 800 in Low-Ardeche of them…)
Church (of XI-XIIIe, bell-tower XIXe)

Information: Tourist office of Saint Martin's day d' Ardèche, places Church (in the old presbytery)

Tourism

Classified 7th in June 2006 with the " Prize list of the Places of Vacances" Nouvel Observateur, Saint-Martin-in Ardèche east with the Southern door of the Throats, department, with the " first sud".

3 hotels
7 camp-sites
Lodgings and rooms of hosts

Personalities related to the commune

the surrealist painter max Ernst lived in 1938 in the village in company of the young person Leonora Carrington.

Associations

'' Tourist office '' - President: Roland Raoux - Place of the Church - Tel.: 04.75.98.70 .91 - Email: ot-smart07@wanadoo.fr
Public library - President: Coulon Marie-France - Place of the Church
ESA max Ernst in St-Martin d' Ardèche - President: Julotte Rock - Library
Ardé' cabbages - Inter-commune Crib (St-Martin, St-Just, St-Marcel) - President: Ludovic Wibaux - Valla de Soutou - Tel.: 08.71.36.84 .39
ESA Sports and Leisures - tennis, tarot - President: Herve Ventajol - Town hall
UNRPA - President: Michele Laurent - Town hall
APATAM - ESA of Assistance to the Projects of Togolese Associations Ardeche-Midday - President: Lyne Dumas - Town hall
the Penny of the Schools - ESA of the Parents of Raised - President: Linda Benini - School, street of the Town hall
Club Canoe kayak of the Gorges of Ardeche - President: Lutz Frederic the mill
Motor bike Club 07 - President: Patrick Chub - Street of Eschabots
ACASMA - ESA of the Tradesmen & Craftsmen - Secretary: Alain Gualezzi - Olivette, rte of Sauze

See too

Common of Ardeche

External bonds

Tourist office of St-Martin d' Ardèche
Saint-Martin-in Ardèche on the site of the national geographical Institute
Saint-Martin-in Ardèche on the site of INSEE
Saint-Martin-in Ardèche on the site of Quid
Localization of Saint-Martin-in Ardèche on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Saint-Martin-in Ardèche on Mapquest
Site on the ten Tourist offices on Southern Ardeche Full, the Rhone in the Cevennes

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